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Competition Who?
Taleah Dixon, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project, Student Voices Project 2019
Among Friends: Opening up the Doors
Our introduction to the March issue, “Outside the Meetinghouse.”
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Outside the Meetinghouse
Experiments with Worship
Quaker worship takes to the streets.
Elizabeth Claggett-Borne enjoys biking to work, accompanying a family in sanctuary, and trying not to fidget in worship. She is grateful to be a part of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.). She teaches Exploring the Quaker Way, laughs at her hubris, and travels in the ministry.
Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations On Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond
By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 452), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam is a psychologist, Quaker, and artist/writer/dancer […]
Patricia Morrison attends South Mountain Meeting (NPYM) in Ashland, Ore. She works with artists, writers, musicians, and creative professionals to help them make a living, make a life, and make a difference (innerfireouterlight.com). She is working on a book about how to make work that is at the intersection of creativity and social good financially and otherwise sustainable.
Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity
By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness, […]
Rosalie Dance is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a sojourner at Belize City Meeting in Belize.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
By Miko Peled. Just World Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.95/paperback; $20.99/eBook. In Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting, a Steering Committee member of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network, and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. 272 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback (available June 2019); $13.99/eBook. […]
Judith Favor, a member of Claremont (Calif.) Meeting, befriended Rosie Alfaro in 1999. Their enduring friendship powered Judith’s work with AVP and sparked her efforts to end the death penalty.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys
Edited by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick‐Parks. Corwin, 2018. 472 pages. $27.95/paperback or eBook. Some years […]
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and lives at Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. She is passionate about ending racism with a current emphasis on criminal justice reform.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Draw Your Weapons
By Sarah Sentilles. Random House, 2017. 320 pages. $28/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Assembled like a collage or impressionist painting, Draw Your Weapons […]
Lori Patterson lives in Portland, Ore., where she teaches women’s studies at her local college, attends Multnomah Meeting in Portland (serving on the Racial Justice Committee), and runs an independent yarn and fiber dyeing business out of her home.†
Posted in: August 2018 Books, Going Viral with Quakerism, Quaker Book Reviews
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May 2019
Student Voices
6th Annual Student Voices Project
Features
How I Found God in Competitive Sport by Jon Watts
The Hope for Collaboration over Competition by Mark Pratt‐Russum
The Invisible Damage of Competition by Mary Jo Klingel
Poetry
Always the Challenge to Be Patient by Charles Bunner
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