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Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness

By Lisa Graustein on February 1, 2020

Special Web Feature: New England Yearly Meeting鈥檚 experiment with paying attention.

Lisa Graustein is a member of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, Mass. She wrote this article in consultation with the members of New England Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness Working Group.

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This Promise of Change: One Girl鈥檚 Story in the Fight for School Equality

By Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally on December 1, 2019

By Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury Children鈥檚 Books, 2019. 320 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.99/paperback (available March 2020); $12.59/eBook. [鈥

Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She lives in Washington, D.C., and has a master鈥檚 in fiction from the University of Maryland.

Posted in: December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Kids
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

By Reviewed by Pamela Haines on November 1, 2019

By George Yancy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook.

Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Her most recent book is Money and Soul, an expansion of a Pendle Hill pamphlet by the same name.

Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on November 1, 2019

By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.

David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.

Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

By Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt on November 1, 2019

By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (available January 2020); $2.99/eBook.

Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Middlebury (Vt.) Meeting. She and Louis Cox live in an all-solar, all-electric home in rural Vermont where they grow most of the vegetables and fruits that they consume year-round. She is the author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.

Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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TheKidnapped

The Kidnapped: A Collection of Short Stories

By Reviewed by Jim Hood on October 1, 2019

By Dwight L. Wilson. Running Wild Press, 2018. 182 pages. $16.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook.

Jim Hood teaches English and environmental studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of Friendship Meeting, North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative).

Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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So You Want to Talk About Race

By Reviewed by Lori Patterson on September 1, 2019

By Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2018. 256 pages. $27/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. When I attend my monthly meeting, I am one [鈥

Lori Patterson lives in Portland, Ore., where she teaches women鈥檚 studies at the local college, attends Multnomah Meeting in Portland (where she serves on the Racial Justice Committee), and runs an independent yarn and fiber dyeing business out of her home.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally on September 1, 2019

By Larry Yang. Wisdom Publications, 2017. 280 pages. $17.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. With Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, [鈥

Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She is the recipient of Pendle Hill鈥檚 2019 Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship and served as writer-in-residence there from March through July 2019. Anna has an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on August 1, 2019

By Jonathan Wilson鈥怘artgrove. IVP Books, 2018. 192 pages. $20/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Back in 1968, I was a 13鈥恲ear鈥恛ld seeker and new [鈥

Steve Chase is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.), the manager of Academic Initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), and an organizer with the Occupation Free DC anti-police brutality campaign. He is a published author and a regular contributor to ICNC鈥檚 Minds of the Movement blog.

Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
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Truly Winning at Life

By Sophia Stylianos on May 1, 2019

Competition is a big part of the everyday world. It overlaps with the desire for power and the desire for [鈥

Sophia Stylianos, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.

Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project, Student Voices Project 2019
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