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The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil‐Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep

By Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt on January 1, 2019

By Mary DeMocker. New World Library, 2018. 360 pages. $16.95/paperback or eBook. Oh my gosh, what an incredible read this [
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Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Burlington (Vt.) Meeting. She and her husband live in a solar-powered, net zero energy home in the woods. They are active in the Transition Town Movement in their community and with Friends in New England. She is author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.


Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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John Felton Gibbons

By Staff on January 1, 2019

Gibbons—John Felton Gibbons, 80, on April 20, 2018, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. John was born on October 6, 1937, in [
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Posted in: Milestones, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on December 1, 2018

By Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin, illustrated by Vali Mintzi. Charlesbridge, 2018. 112 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages [
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Paul Buckley is a member of the Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived.


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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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America

By Reviewed by Eileen Redden on November 1, 2018

By Mohammed Al Samawi. William Morrow, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Mohammed Al Samawi is the son of two Yemeni [
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Eileen Redden worships with a worship group in Lewes, Del. As the young Friends book review editor for Friends Journal, she usually reviews books for a younger audience and appreciates this opportunity to spread her wings a bit.


Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World

By Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski on September 1, 2018

By Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory. Paraclete Press, 2017. 196 pages. $16.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. How timely that this deeply personal memoir [
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Claire J. Salkowski is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. She has worked in both public and private schools and was founder, teacher, and head of Free State Montessori School. She is currently an Alternative Dispute Resolution specialist and an educational consultant.


Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
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Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr.

By Staff on May 1, 2018

Ryan—Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr., 77, on October 17, 2017, in State College, Pa., of pneumonia, with his wife, Lauri, holding his [
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Posted in: Milestones, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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Passages

By Marsha Foss on April 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: Perhaps my death will be like Dad’s
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Marsha Foss lives in Saint Paul, Minn.


Posted in: Healing, Poetry
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The author with his wife and child in a tent.

Farm and Community

By Craig Jensen on January 1, 2018

Life on a small vegetable farm.

Craig Jensen likes board games, comic books, and the bread that his wife bakes, but time with his son, Fox, is his favorite thing in the world. He grows beautiful dahlias and would like to spend all of his winter making toys. He is a member of Monadnock Meeting in Jaffrey, N.H.


Posted in: Features, Quaker Lifestyles
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Fresh‐Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market

By Reviewed by Margaret Walden on December 1, 2017

FJ Review: “Although the rhymes are easy, the poet Michelle Schaub has tossed in long and unusual words which will piquĂ© [
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Retired school librarian Margaret Walden, a member of Cleveland (Ohio) Meeting, visits a farmers’ market that sets up weekly on the front porch of her hometown public library in Lakewood, Ohio.


Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
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