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Civility Can Be Dangerous

By Lucy Duncan on August 15, 2018

In 1934, AFSC co‐founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?

Lucy Duncan is the director of Friends Relations at the American Friends Service Committee.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, Online Features

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The Dance Studio Is My Other Meetinghouse

By Arthur Fink on June 1, 2018

When photography becomes worship.

Arthur Fink is a photographer of dance and other subjects; a sought-after speaker; a consultant helping organizations with mission, focus, communication, and conflict; a mentor to many; and co-recording clerk of Portland (Maine) Meeting. His most recent show was of photographs taken at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features

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2018 Quakers in Politics Web Panel

By Staff on March 7, 2018

The upcoming U.S. Congressional mid‐term elections already have at least seven Quaker candidates for office. How does their Quaker faith […]

Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured

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Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Challenge of Our Time

By Reviewed by William Shetter on March 1, 2018

By Kabir Helminski. White Cloud Press, 2017. 140 pages. $14.95/Paperback; $13.99/eBook. Kabir Edmund Helminski is a well‐known American writer on […]

William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He has traveled to the Muslim world several times on visits to his Arab in-law family.

Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land

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Tying Up the Cat

By Donne Hayden on December 1, 2017

Have we forgotten the reasons for our practices?

Donne Hayden is a member of Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting. In 2012, she attended the Friends World Committee for Consultation World Gathering of Friends in Kenya, where she saw the Spirit move in singing and dancing Friends.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features

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A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible‐believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church

By Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould on October 1, 2017

By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time […]

Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment

By In Brief Compiled by Karie Firoozmand on October 1, 2017

By Wenonah Hauter. The New Press, 2016. 276 pages. $27.95/hardcover. Food & Water Watch is a national organization with state […]

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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100 Years of Quiet Tenacity

By Laura Melvin on September 1, 2017

Friends of Fairhope, Alabama.

Laura Melvin is a member of Fairhope (Ala.) Meeting. She has published in various magazines and is the author of the book Public Secrets and Justice: A Journal of a Circuit Court Judge, which is available through QuakerBooks of FGC.

Posted in: Online Features, September 2017

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