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Foodways and Folkways

By Martin Kelley on June 1, 2019

Among Friends: Our introduction to the June‐July 2019 issue on Food Choices.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Among Friends, June/July 2019: Food Choices
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Edward Draper Baker

By Staff on April 1, 2019

Baker—Edward Draper Baker, 68, on October 29, 2017, at home in Ashaway, R.I., after a valiant five‐year struggle with cancer. […]

Posted in: Humor in Religion, Milestones
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Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma

By Reviewed by Tom Paxson on January 1, 2019

By Shelly Rambo. Baylor University Press, 2017. 196 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Christianity was born in trauma, but do […]

Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal (Pa.) Meeting, Western Quarter, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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Frank Rouse Huff Jr.

By Staff on December 1, 2018

Huff—Frank Rouse Huff Jr., 68, on March 4, 2018, after losing his struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Bo, as he was […]

Posted in: Milestones, Quakers and Christianity
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Keeping It Real, Quaker Style

By Martin Kelley on September 1, 2018

Among Friends: our introduction to the September issue.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Among Friends, September 2018
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Writing Opp: Quakers and Christianity (due 9/17)

By Martin Kelley on August 7, 2018

It’s a series of questions that has dogged Friends since we did away with clergy and started calling baptism a […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
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An interview with David Harrington Watt

By Aliyah Shanti on February 1, 2018

Friends Journal catches up with Haverford College’s new professor of Quaker studies.

Aliyah Shanti is the temporary assistant editor at Friends Journal. She lives in Philadelphia and is a member of Olympia (Wash.) Meeting.

Posted in: February 2018, Interviews
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An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

By Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould on February 1, 2018

Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several […]

Mitchell Santine Gould is a leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website LeavesOfGrass.Org. His analysis of Transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Friends Meeting in Portland, Ore.

Posted in: February 2018, February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Co‐curricular Learning in the Quaker and Special Collections

By Mary Crauderueff on November 1, 2017

A look behind the scenes at Haverford Library Quaker and Special Collections.

Mary Crauderueff is the curator of the Quaker Collections at Haverford College. She grew up as a member at Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, and currently attends Germantown Mennonite Church in Philadelphia. She loves hiking in the Wissahickon, drinking espresso, and working toward decolonizing the archives field in theory and practice.

Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries
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Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

By Gwen Gosney Erickson on November 1, 2017

Queries for Friends to consider as they discern how to maintain a meeting library.

Gwen Gosney Erickson is the Friends Historical Collection Librarian and College Archivist at Guilford College where she is a member of Hege Library’s leadership team. She is a member of Friendship Meeting and currently serves as clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative). She lives in Greensboro, N.C.

Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries
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