By Julie L. Holcomb. Cornell University Press, 2016. 252 pages. $39.95/hardcover or eBook. Those who know much about Quaker history are aware of sharp differences among Friends, especially since the late eighteenth century, over theology, discipline, and centralization versus local autonomy. But Friends found unity against slavery fairly early, scattered in the 1680s, increasing in […]
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Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
Larry Ingle is an historian of Quakerism whose most recent publication is Nixon鈥檚 First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President. A member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting, he is retired from the history department of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Books, The Art of Dying
13th
Written by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick, directed by Ava DuVernay. Netflix Documentary, 2016. 100 minutes. Public screenings are free without a Netflix subscription. Private screenings are free with subscription. Visit the official site on Netflix Ava DuVernay鈥檚 Netflix documentary 13th is quite simply a tour de force. Central to this account of how the […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Books, The Art of Dying
Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another
By Bruce Birchard. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 442), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this pamphlet, based on a 2011 plenary address to the Friends General Conference Gathering, Bruce Birchard writes of love and reconciliation through stories on three levels: personal/family, Religious Society of Friends, and in a nation that experienced genocide. Each level required a […]
Marty Grundy is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Books, The Art of Dying
You Will Not Have My Hate
By Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor. Penguin Press, 2016. 144 pages. $23/hardcover; $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Antoine Leiris began writing You Will Not Have My Hate (originally published in French as Vous N鈥橝urez Pas Ma Haine by Librairie Arth猫me Fayard, Paris) in the days after his wife, H茅l猫ne, was killed in the November 2015 Paris terror […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and the DC Peace Team. She also serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Peace and Social Concerns Committee.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Books, The Art of Dying
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing
Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald. The Library of America, 2016. 850 pages. $40/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This is an ambitious book, and it looks it. Elegantly bound, complete with a satin ribbon bookmark attached, War No More intends to be a reference as well as a guide through the more than three centuries of Europeans in America鈥攁nd before鈥攕tarting […]
J.E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and as an attorney a longtime supporter of those who say no to war. She spent 11 years as the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War and continues to work with members in the military who seek CO discharge.
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Quaker Summers: May Full Issue Access
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4th Annual Student Voices Project
This year we asked students to write a letter to the next president of the United States suggesting what they think he should focus on during his first year.
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I think it says something about our country that even the smallest of voices were recognized
Student Voices: ” I believe that every voice should be heard, but some are silenced by society. As the next president, you should help to give everyone, rich or poor, a chance to voice their opinions.”
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I also dressed as you for Halloween and got 7.2 pounds of candy!
Student Voices: “I am interested in history, and I like to play sports. I am a comedian and do good impressions of people, including you, Vladimir Putin, Obama, and Hillary.”
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Black people just want to be treated equally
Student Voices: “Why does the mistreatment satisfy people? Does it make these people happy to make us feel like we don鈥檛 belong simply because of the color of our skin? Does what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for mean absolutely nothing to them? We should be judged by who we are as a person, […]
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August 2017
The Art of Dying and the Afterlife
Unaccompanied by Boyce Upholt
Heaven-based Living by Michael Resman
Children and Death by John Graham-Pole
Weeping to Joy by Betsy Blake
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