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Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse
Yohannes "Knowledge" Johnson is a member of Bulls Head-Oswego (N.Y.) Meeting and is clerk of Green Haven Preparative Meeting. He was born and raised in Harlem, N.Y. He has been in prison since 1980 and is currently working on a petition in support of executive clemency in New York State.
Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
Experiments with Worship
Quaker worship takes to the streets.
Elizabeth Claggett-Borne enjoys biking to work, accompanying a family in sanctuary, and trying not to fidget in worship. She is grateful to be a part of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.). She teaches Exploring the Quaker Way, laughs at her hubris, and travels in the ministry.
Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
Holding Unite the Right to the Light
Holding a public meeting for worship in a maelstrom of political anger.
Debby Churchman is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and served as its administrative secretary at the time of this event.
Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
William Penn: A Life
By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of […]
Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and has served on the board of trustees of Friends Publishing Corporation, publisher of Friends Journal.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends
By Emma Condori Mamani. Publicaciones CALA, 2017. 117 pages. $20/paperback. When in 1919 Friends undertook missionary work in Bolivia, it […]
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: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
Christopher Henry Hodgkin
Hodgkin—Christopher Henry Hodgkin, 74, on June 11, 2018, at home in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Wash. Christopher was born […]
Posted in: Milestones, Outside the Meetinghouse
Harold Dean Tuttle
Tuttle—Harold Dean Tuttle, 108, on July 18, 2018, peacefully, at home in State College, Pa. Dean was born on April […]
Posted in: Milestones, Outside the Meetinghouse
News, February 2019
British Friends and Palestine announcment; new directors at Quaker Voluntary Service and Belize Friends Ministries.
Posted in: February 2019, News
Requiring Solution Together
Our introduction to the February 2019 issue
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal. Email: [email protected].
Posted in: Among Friends, February 2019
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March 2019
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Features
Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse by Yohannes “Knowledge” Johnson
What Does the Outside Say? by Brad Stocker
Faces of Addiction by Eric K. Hatch
Faithful Action on Climate Change by Lynn Fitz‐Hugh
Experiments with Worship by Elizabeth Claggett‐Borne
Holding Unite the Right to the Light by Debby Churchman
Poetry
After a Quote by William Penn by Maggie Hess
Most Evenings by Nathan Lipps
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