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Jane Reppert Jenks Small

By Staff on March 1, 2019

Small—Jane Reppert Jenks Small, 96, on August 26, 2018, at Foxdale Village in State College, Pa. Jane was born on [
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Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse
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Writing Opp: Food Choices (deadline March 18)

By Martin Kelley on February 22, 2019

Are there any of our modern Quaker testimonies that aren’t affected by what and how and why and with whom [
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Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.


Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
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Bearing False Witness

By Andrew Huff on February 1, 2019

Sometimes people aren’t who they seem.

Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass., in 2015–16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Names and details have been altered for privacy.


Posted in: Features, February 2019
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Robert D. Rugg

By Staff on February 1, 2019

Rugg—Robert D. Rugg, 75, on June 25, 2018, in Richmond, Va., surrounded by family, after a brief illness. Bob was [
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Posted in: February 2019, Milestones
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Writing Opp: Friendly Competition? (deadline extended to Feb 25)

By Martin Kelley on January 24, 2019

Learn more about writing for our May issue on competition.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.


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A Cautious Hope

By Martin Kelley on January 1, 2019

An introduction to the January 2019 issue, “A Racially Diverse Society of Friends?”

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]


Posted in: Among Friends, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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To Our Readers

By Staff on January 1, 2019

Notice to our subscribers.


Posted in: Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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John Rudolph Kern

By Staff on January 1, 2019

Kern—John Rudolph Kern, 78, on March 18, 2018, in Abingdon, Va., where he suffered a heart attack. John was born [
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Posted in: Milestones, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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Railroad of Courage

By Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams on December 1, 2018

By Dan Rubenstein and Nancy Dyson. Ronsdale Press, 2017. 162 pages. $11.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 9–12. Against the stark [
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Jerry Mizell Williams worships at Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.


Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
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The author's grandparents on the porch of their cabin in Kentucky.

Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

By Robert Stephen Dicken on November 1, 2018

A ninth‐grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach.

Robert Stephen Dicken is a member of First Friends Meeting in New Castle, Ind. Since retiring in 2002 from teaching high school English, he can be found reading, writing, drawing, guitar-playing, community volunteering, bragging about his three sons, and entertaining five grandchildren.


Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features
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