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A Quaker School鈥檚 Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Erik Hanson is one of the news editors for Friends Journal, along with his wife, Windy Cooler. Erik has served as a friendly adult presence in Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Youth Program since 2005. He taught English and math at Friends Community School in College Park, Md., from 2006 to 2008.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Trying to Be Truthful
By Chel Avery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 455), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Reflections on trying to be truthful are particularly [鈥
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa., part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. A retired professor of philosophy, he has long been interested in philosophical questions regarding truth and knowledge.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 BooksBarbara Cooper Rosen
Rosen鈥擝arbara Cooper Rosen, 89, on December 19, 2018, peacefully, at home in Ashland, Ore. Barbara was born on April 10, [鈥
Posted in: Milestones, September 2019
Writing for Open Issues (next: Feb 2020)
Learn how to write for a Friends Journal open issue.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of聽Friends Journal. This piece originally written May 2018.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
A History of Cadbury
By Diane Wordsworth. Pen and Sword History, 2018. 176 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $24.95/paperback (available in September); $19.17/eBook. In 1824 John Cadbury [鈥
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program of Brown University鈥檚 English Department.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
The Doctor of Flowers
By Rachel Blum. 3: A Taos Press, 2018. 99 pages. $24/paperback. In her splendid poetry collection The Doctor of Flowers, [鈥
Bob Dixon-Kolar is an assistant professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He and his family are members of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at FivePhilip Louis Gilbert
Gilbert鈥擯hilip Louis Gilbert, 91, on November 28, 2018, peacefully, in his sleep, in Kennett Square, Pa. Phil was born on [鈥
Posted in: Milestones, QuakerSpeak at Five
Faith and Experience in Education: Essays from Quaker Perspectives
Edited by Don Rowe and Anne Watson. Trentham Books, 2018. 256 pages. $41.95/paperback or eBook. As an early childhood teacher, [鈥
Sharlee DiMenichi is a member of Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa. She has taught preschool and elementary school and is currently an English as a second language instructor.
Posted in: June/July 2019 Books, June/July 2019: Food Choices, Quaker Book ReviewsWriting Opp: Friends in Africa (due July 8, 2019)
Half of the world鈥檚 Friends live in Africa; Kenya alone has almost twice as many Friends as the United States. [鈥
Martin Kelley is senior editor of聽Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Student Voices Project
This year we asked Quaker鈥恆ffiliated students to write about competition in their lives.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project
Features
Spiritual Simplicity by Andrew Huff
My Year of Living Eschatologically by Muriel Edgerton
Selling Out to Niceness by Ann Jerome
A Quaker School鈥檚 Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Erik Hanson
Slavery in the Quaker World by Katharine Gerbner
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Sabbath by Jessie Brown
Ancestry by Anna Murphey
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