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Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times

By Shan Cretin on April 1, 2017

Shan Cretin looka back at 100 years of Quaker action and witness.

Shan Cretin will be retiring as general secretary of American Friends Service Committee at the end of August 2017, a post she has held since September 2010. She is currently a member of Santa Monica (Calif.) Meeting and a sojourning member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features

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Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on August 1, 2015

By Phil Noble. NewSouth Books, 2013. 169 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In the April 16, 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin […]

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: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book Reviews

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A New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2013

By Staff on December 23, 2013

We’ve been sharing our most‐read articles of 2012 on Facebook and Twitter. Here they are along with highlights from the […]

Posted in: Online Features

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