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Writing Opp: The State of Quaker Institutions (due 1/13/2020)
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. [email protected].
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Gambling: A Violation of the Quaker Testimonies
A violation of the Quaker testimonies?
Continuing a Quaker Affordable Housing Legacy
Friends past and present working on housing access in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Eric Malm is a professor of economics and business management at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pa., a member Norristown (Pa.) Meeting, and a member of Abington Quarter’s Home and Care Committee. More information about the meeting’s housing project can be found at norristownfriends.org.
Posted in: Gambling, Witness
I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to Grace‐Filled Political Conversations
By Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth A. Silvers. Nelson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback (available February 2020); $9.99/eBook.
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Phil Favero is a member of Agate Passage Meeting in Washington State. He is a Montana native, a former member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, a retired economist, and a longtime supporter of Friends’ work to right our relationship with the natural world.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Forgotten Occupation: Life in the Syrian Golan after 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
Edited and published by Al‐Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights, 2018. 144 pages. Free PDF download at golan-marsad.org/publications.
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and is a member of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsMarian Bradley Hoge
Hoge—Marian Bradley Hoge, 94, on February 11, 2019, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. Marian was born on December 5, 1924, in […]
Posted in: Gambling, Milestones
Leadings of the Spirit
American and South African activists bring election monitoring to Cape Town suburbs.
A member of Cape Eastern Meeting in South Africa, Rommel Roberts has been an activist in various human rights, development, and nonviolent election campaigns. Through his work with Bishop Tutu, he traveled internationally among Friends and others to develop anti-apartheid support. He is the author of Seeds of Peace.
Robin Roberts, originally from California, is involved with rural and township development work, focused especially on Black youth and women. She and Rommel have fostered two girls for the past seven years. She is an internationally known artist.
Lark Worth of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa., met Rommel in 1987 when he toured Philadelphia-area meetings and Quaker schools with the challenging question: “How do we love in the face of fear and hate?”
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Empowering Women against Gender‐based Violence
The story of Burundi’s Friends Women’s Association.
Parfaite Ntahuba is one of the three female pastors from the Evangelical Friends Church of Burundi. She is the senior pastor in Kamenge Meeting, which has more than 2,500 members, and the national coordinator of Friends Women’s Association.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Becoming Fully Human: Writings on Quakers and Christian Thought
By Michael Langford. Friends of the Light, 2019. 456 pages. $19.14/paperback; $4.99/eBook.
Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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