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Author Lola Georg reads “The Dwelling Place Within”
https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Dwelling-Place-Within.mp3 FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS | STITCHER FJ Podcast: I had the most remarkable experience the...
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The Everywhere Oracle: A Guided Journey Through Poetry for an Ensouled World
By Caryl Ann Casbon. Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2015. 112 pages. $17.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks There is a deep part of every human being that seeks meaning and purpose. We search for...
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Quaker Works October 2016
A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy Consultation, Support, and Resources Development Education...
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The bridge over waning years is creased with toil where poise and bravado spill over in laughter. Wheelchair traffic animates carpeted lanes like bumper cars, all signals on go. Standards for diner...
View ArticlePatricia Boughton Palmer
Palmer—Patricia Boughton Palmer, 82, on December 24, 2015, in St. Augustine, Fla., surrounded by her family. Patricia was born on December 30, 1932, in Montclair, N.J., to Amy Boughton and Spencer...
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Weathering the Windfall Contest
How Do Meetings Manage Unexpected Large Gifts? Our December issue will look at Giving and Philanthropy. During our staff brainstorm on this topic, our executive director Gabriel Ehri recalled a...
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Stanfield—Helen Lewis Stanfield, 91, on September 10, 2016, at Friends Homes in Greensboro, N.C. Helen was born on September 28, 1924, in New York City, to Helen Scarlett and Robert Ernest Lewis,...
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The Art of Gratitude
A boy’s watercolor depicts a heartwarming scene created amid the misery and starvation of post-World War I Germany. The painting, part of a new exhibit entitled “Giving Voices to Ghosts,” shows three...
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An interview with Joyce Ajlouny
Courtesy of Joyce Ajlouny. Much of your life and the life of your extended family has been tied to Ramallah Friends School in Palestine. Tell us some of the roles you’ve had there. The Ramallah Friends...
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Philadelphia young adults reenvision lecture series The Young Adult Friends program of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) in Pennsylvania has recently adopted changes to the group’s ongoing lecture...
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Huff—Thomas A. Huff, 87, on November 13, 2016, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tom was born on December 24, 1928, in San Diego, Calif., to Miriam Pool and Melvin Huff. His family lived in China, Hawaii, and...
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Great Plains Yearly Meeting expanding Two new monthly meetings joined Great Plains Yearly Meeting during its annual yearly meeting held June 1–4 in Wichita, Kans. Topeka (Kans.) Meeting and Lubbock...
View ArticleDyckman Ware Vermilye
Vermilye—Dyckman Ware Vermilye, 94, on March 25, 2017, at Taos Retirement Village in Taos, N.M., following complications from a fall. Dyck was born on July 8, 1922, to Alice Louise Love and Joseph Ware...
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Art Exhibitions as a New Ministry
Pregnant Belly. It is extremely hard to teach and share about spirituality, especially Quaker spirituality. Ours is a world where materialism and capitalism can be so prevalent that they encroach upon...
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The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2017. 190 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks James Bryan Smith is a “magnificent” writer; that is, with this book he begins a trilogy of books...
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News, October 2018
Rusty Friend of Hardin’s Creek Friends Church in Leesburg, Ohio, speaks at Wilmington Yearly Meeting annual sessions in July. Photo © Dan Kasztelan, Friends United Meeting. Departures from Wilmington...
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John Rudolph Kern
Kern—John Rudolph Kern, 78, on March 18, 2018, in Abingdon, Va., where he suffered a heart attack. John was born on January 28, 1940, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Jean and Alexander Kern. His boyhood summers...
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The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free...
By Mary DeMocker. New World Library, 2018. 360 pages. $16.95/paperback or eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks Oh my gosh, what an incredible read this book is! Let me tell you right away that this is not just...
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News, February 2019
Dove on separation barrier in the West Bank. © Quakers in Britain. Britain Yearly Meeting to not profit from the occupation of Palestine On November 19, 2018, Britain Yearly Meeting (also known as...
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Quaker Works April 2019
This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy Consultation, Support, and Resources Development Education Environmental and...
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