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To Imagine Change through Many Voices

By Detmer Kremer on November 1, 2018

The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know.

Detmer Kremer is a writer and reader based out of the Netherlands and London, where he is currently attending graduate school. He is a former participant of Quaker Voluntary Service in Atlanta, and considers Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting one of his homes.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features

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SELF‐ish: A Transgender Awakening

By Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally on November 1, 2018

By Chloe Schwenke. Red Hen Press, 2018. 260 pages. $17.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. At Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Women’s Retreat two years ago, […]

Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting, and works as assistant to the executive secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation. She has a master's of fine arts in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on October 1, 2018

By Miko Peled. Just World Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.95/paperback; $20.99/eBook. In Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting, a Steering Committee member of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network, and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Life in a Box

By Andrew Huff on September 1, 2018

The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.

Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in 2015–16 in Boston, Mass. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: Features, September 2018

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Prophetic, Persistent, Powerful

By Bridget Moix on September 1, 2018

Friends Committee on National Legislation at 75

Bridget Moix is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and serves as the clerk of FCNL’s General Committee. She has worked for more than two decades on international peace and conflict issues with a focus on U.S. foreign policy.

Posted in: Features, September 2018

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The Future Is Accessible

By Jessica Hubbard-Bailey on August 1, 2018

A silent podcast goes viral and points to ways to share Quakerism.

Jessica Hubbard-Bailey is the host and executive producer of Young Quaker Podcast and a member of her local meeting in the United Kingdom.

Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism

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Forum August 2018

By Staff on August 1, 2018

Letters from our readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please […]

Posted in: Forum, Going Viral with Quakerism

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Art That Works

By Joey Hartmann-Dow on June 1, 2018

Can art really change the world?

Joey Hartmann-Dow is a member of Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., and is currently nomadic. You can keep up with her projects and adventures at usandweart.com.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features

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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

By Reviewed by Anna McCormally on June 1, 2018

By Morgan Jerkins. Harper Perennial, 2018. 272 pages. $15.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. I was drawn to Morgan Jerkins’s writing because I feel […]

Anna McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting, and works as assistant to the executive secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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