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The Courageous Many
Lucy Duncan serves American Friends Service Committee as director of Friends Relations and is a storyteller and member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features
The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing
By Drew Leder. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 304 pages. $30/paperback or eBook. To be human means to lead both […]
A physician practicing in Virginia, Margaret Fisher is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback; $18.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] A lot of attention has been given to […]
Patience Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and the Annapolis Human Relations Commission.
Posted in: March 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Race and Anti-Racism
Le Flambeau School of Driving
By Peggy Senger Morrison. Unction Press, 2016. 314 pages. $15/paperback; $10/eBook. Rarely have I read a book focused on our […]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He has recently written on the psalms as spiritual directors.
Posted in: February 2017, February 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Bridging the Gap
Finding a way to communicate with those on both sides of violent crime.
Phyllis B. Taylor is a member of Germantown Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. Besides her work with victims and the incarcerated, she is a wife, mother, and grandmother and a resource person for those facing end-of-life issues.
Posted in: Features, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
End Slavery for All
Viewpoint. 🔒
John Andrew Gallery lives in Philadelphia, Pa. He can be contacted at jagphila
Posted in: September 2016, Viewpoint
Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000
By Kris Hermes. PM Press, 2015. 336 pages. $22.95/paperback. The author, a legal worker (non-lawyer) member of the National Lawyers […]
J. E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and an attorney member of the National Lawyers Guild, off and on depending on the pressure to support military or violent solutions within the local chapter.
Posted in: 2016, June/July 2016 Books, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker, Quaker Book Reviews, Uncategorized
A Quaker Voice in Indiana
An interview with Grace Miller of Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation.
Grace Miller was born and raised in Indianapolis, Ind., (“Hoosier true through and through”) and grew up attending Irvington Meeting in Indianapolis. She believes that folks from Indiana are kind, loving, and warm people who are also serious and hard working. Grace was interviewed by Friends Journal associate editor Gail Whiffen Coyle.
Posted in: Features, January 2016: Quakers and the Political Process
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
By Daniel Hunter. The Veterans of Hope Project, 2015. 71 pages. $10/paperback; $4/eBook. A number of yearly meetings have been […]
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and author of two Pendle Hill pamphlets, including Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience.
Posted in: January 2016 Books, January 2016: Quakers and the Political Process, Quaker Book Reviews
Podcast reading of “Reducing Violence from Within”
From Reducing Violence from Within: In light of the numerous black civilian deaths by police this year, including those in […]
Posted in: Audio
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