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Framing the Light
Jean Schnell is a lifelong Quaker with roots in Valley Meeting in Wayne, Pa. She is now a member of Framingham (Mass.) Meeting. She is a retired nurse and health coach. She loves the contemplative process of viewing the world through a camera with delight, awe, and joy. Her photographs of meetinghouses can be found at JeanSchnell.com.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Spaces
Ministry of Tourism
A historic meetinghouse becomes a place where the public can learn about Friends.
Since 2013, Lynne Calamia has overseen the operation, maintenance, and upkeep of the historic Arch Street Meeting House and burial ground. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Penn State University. Lynne is a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Spaces
Experiences: Life at a Continuing Care Retirement Community
By Residents of Kendal at Longwood. Peggy and Allan Brick Publishers, 2015. 167 pages. $12/paperback. Alan Walker’s essay “Quakers and the Elderly,” published in the spring 2015 issue of Quaker History, tells us that Friends concern for the elderly goes back at least to 1696 when Bristol Meeting in England opened a home for the […]
Peter Bien is a member of Hanover (N.H.) Meeting. He is also a member of the founding committee of Kendal at Hanover; former clerk of Kendal at Hanover’s board of trustees; former president of its Residents Council; and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.
Posted in: Books, Disability and Inclusion, March 2016 Books
How Quaker War Tax Resistance Came and Went, Twice
A history of a sometimes-forgotten Quaker witness.
David M. Gross is the editor of American Quaker War Tax Resistance. Some of the material in this article is based on a talk on the history of Quaker war tax resistance he delivered at Earlham School of Religion in 2014 for the national conference of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.
Posted in: Features, February 2016
Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought: 1647–1723
Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 340 pages. $120/hardcover; $96/eBook. “An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” and used Quakerism and George Fox as his example. Yet Fox’s Journal alone gives evidence of the diversity of other personalities […]
Brian Drayton attends Souhegan Meeting (Allowed) in Wilton, N.H.
Posted in: Books, February 2016, February 2016 Books
Friends Journal Reviewer Survey
Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.
Posted in: Books, November 2015, November 2015 Books
A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture
By C. Wess Daniels. Pickwick Publications, 2015. 223 pages. $27/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Quakerism, most agree, is in need of renewal. There are many possible paths to this goal, however. C. Wess Daniels in this book works to construct and argue for a model of Quakerism that draws from recent thinking about community and culture. This is […]
Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.
Posted in: Books, November 2015, November 2015 Books, Uncategorized
Forum October 2015
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Posted in: Forum, October 2015
Milestones October 2013
Marriages: Sarah Boss and Jeremy John Shea. Births: Riva Roy-Ehri, Deaths: Dorothy Ann Dickenson Corbit, Weaver Rose Habl, Elizabeth H. Moger, Eleanor Bent Plant, Mary Elizabeth Gaunt Rhoads, Majid Tehranian.
Posted in: Milestones, October 2013
Traveling Ministry
The theme of the August 2012 issue is “traveling.” This is an excerpt on traveling in the ministry from the new Friends Journal-published book, Quaker Process for Friends on the Benches. -Eds. Throughout significant portions of Quaker history the traveling ministry has been the lifeblood of the Religious Society of Friends. Since the earliest days […]
This is an excerpt from Quaker Process for Friends on the Benches available now from Friends Journal.
Posted in: June-July 2012, The FJ Blog
QuakerSpeak DVDs on Sale Now
June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms by Barbara Dale
What We Cannot Do Alone by Noah Merrill
Worshiping Online by Rachel Guaraldi
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge? by Thomas Hamm
Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem by Margaret Fraser
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