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Building White Racial Stamina
Elizabeth (Liz) A. Oppenheimer carries a concern for addressing whiteness and racism among Friends. She recently distributed an open letter to white Friends, which is on her web-log at _thegoodraisedup.blogspot.com_. She is a member of Bear Creek Meeting outside of Earlham, Iowa, and worships with Laughing Waters Friends Preparative Meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative).
Posted in: Features, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Expectant Visions of a Christian Anarchist
Have Friends lost our willingness to be countercultural?
Zae Asa Illo (formerly David Breitzmann) serves on the Ministry and Oversight Committee of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting. He co-founded the weekly #FridayFoodSharing (2014), streetDoves (nonviolent, civilian-based defense training, 2017), Uplifted (a digital pacifist newsletter, 2018), and has met monthly with an oversight committee since 2016. He is in discernment for application to seminary and has finished the initial draft for his first collection of poetry.
Posted in: Features, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
An Interview with the Co鈥恈lerks of Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force
Looking at Friends General Conference鈥檚 work of racial self鈥恊xamination.
Sharon Lane-Getaz attends Cannon Valley Meeting in Northfield, Minn., where she teaches at a local college; she and her wife are newly "empty nesting" as their daughter has started college. Justin Connor is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.); he is an attorney living in Washington with his family. Sharon and Justin are the co-clerks of FGC's Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force. The interview was conducted by Friends Journal senior editor Martin Kelley.
Posted in: Uncategorized
We Are but God鈥檚 Workers
An outdoor meeting takes up a new ministry that grows during the colder months.
Andrea Smith is a member of Greenleaf Weekly Meeting in Newark, Ohio.
An earlier version of this article appeared as an online-only feature in November 2018.
Posted in: Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019), Service
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
By Frances FitzGerald. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 752 pages. $35/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Frances FitzGerald offers a spectacular sweep of the [鈥
Zae Asa Illo (formerly David Breitzmann) is a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting. He has a nearly two-year standing anchor committee and has been engaged in street preaching for several months. He is also working on releasing a collection of poetry, launching a new social enterprise, and applying to seminary in 2020.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
December 2018 Full Issue Access
Members can download the full PDF or read any article online (see links below). Features: The Continuing Revelation of My [鈥
Posted in: Full Access, Quakers and Christianity
Not One Quaker Experience but Many
Among Friends: Our introduction to the December issue on Quakers and Christianity.
Gabriel Ehri is聽executive director of聽Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and Christianity
The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity
The diversity within Quakerism and Christianity can reveal additional windows into the Divine.
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting, a steering committee member of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network, and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Peace and Social Concerns Committee. She serves as director of social action at a Catholic School in Bethesda and is a Sacred Heart Associate.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
Are We Really Christian?
Do we focus on the religiosity or the spirituality of our Quakerism?
Margaret Namubuya Amudavi has a degree in theology from Friends Theological College (FTC) and in Christian education from Kenya Highlands Bible College. She has a master's in development studies from St. Paul's University in Limuru, Kenya. She has served FTC as a teacher and academic dean.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
God, Jesus, Christianity, and Quakers
A nontheist Friend on the role of Jesus and Christianity in his life.
Jim Cain is a member and former clerk of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting, currently attending Collective Church, a "misfit faith community" in DeLand, Fla. He's recently retired from a long career in public mental health. He has co-led Friends General Conference Gathering workshops on "Nontheism Among Friends" and "Reclaiming the Sacred" and made a presentation on the evolution of God to nontheist Friends at this summer's Gathering.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
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January 2019: A Racially Diverse Society of Friends?
Full Issue Access
Features:
Are We Ready to Make the Necessary Changes? by Vanessa Julye
Building White Racial Stamina by Elizabeth A. Oppenheimer
Greater Racial Diversity Requires Greater Theological Diversity by Adria Gulizia
Expectant Visions of a Christian Anarchist by Zae Asa Illo
We Are Not John Woolman by Gabbreell James
An Interview with the Co鈥恈lerks of Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force
The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society by Viv Hawkins (Online Feature)
Poetry:
Sonnet For George Fox鈥檚 Margaret by Jane Yolen
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