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Writing Opp: Pastoral Friends (due 5/11/2020)
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
How to Be an Inclusive Quaker
The unwritten norms of speech and silence.
Valerie Brown is a Buddhist and Quaker teacher, retreat leader, leadership coach, and writer. She is the founder of Lead Smart Coaching. She leads an annual pilgrimage to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain to celebrate the power of sacred places.
Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
Visa denials impact Scattergood Friends School
Scattergood Friends School has a long history of welcoming international visitors, most notably serving as a hostel for refugees [ā¦]
Erik Hanson and Windy Cooler are the news editors for Friends Journal. They contributed to the reporting of this story. Do you know about any Quaker news stories we should be covering? Send us tips at [email protected].
Posted in: News, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
Viral comingāout video raises LGBTQ issues at George Fox University
Reid Arthur, a senior theater major at George Fox University (GFU) in Newberg, Ore., was already out as gay [ā¦]
Erik Hanson and Windy Cooler are the news editors for Friends Journal. They contributed to the reporting of this story. Do you know about any Quaker news stories we should be covering? Send us tips at [email protected].
Posted in: News, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
Jeremiah Hacker: Journalist, Anarchist, Abolitionist
By Rebecca M. Pritchard. Frayed Edge Press, 2019. 126 pages. $13.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting, the author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir, and she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program of Brown Universityās English Department.
Posted in: February 2020, February 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and Americaās Journey from Slavery to Segregation
By Steve Luxenberg. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 624 pages. $35/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $29.73/eBook.
J. E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and an attorney for more than 40 years. She is a sixth-generation Southerner who grew up in the 1950s in segregated Houston, Tex., and studied Southern history at Rice University. She now lives in the colony of the District of Columbia where the history of Plessy still marks the landscape.
Posted in: February 2020, February 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
Teilhardās Struggle: Embracing the Work of Evolution
By Kathleen Duffy. Orbis Books, 2019. 176 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook.
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: February 2020, February 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book ReviewsRuth Iris Clark Ingram
IngramāRuth Iris Clark Ingram, 104, on January 11, 2019, in Annapolis, Md. Iris was born on November 1, 1914, in [ā¦]
Posted in: February 2020, Milestones
Confronting the Challenge of Drugs
How can we respond to the catastrophes brought on by the war on drugs?
Margaret Shirley Holmes Fritchoff
FritchoffāMargaret Shirley Holmes Fritchoff, 97, on November 17, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz., after a brief illness. Shirley was born on [ā¦]
Posted in: Drugs, Milestones
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Wanted: A Network of Soul Connection by Francine Brocious
Facing Hard Truths by Robin Mohr
Quaker Schools Transforming the World by Deborra Sines Pancoe and Elisabeth Torg
Advancing Quaker Spirituality in the Twentyāfirst Century by Barry Crossno
Quaker Meetings Respond to Coronavirus by Katie Breslin
Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness by Lisa Graustein
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