Dear Editor: Since I first went to sub-Saharan African in 1964, I have often had to respond to negative and derogatory comments about Black Africa. For example, I have twice complained to Quaker publications where, in the captions for pictures, they gave the names of the White Americans but not of the Black Africans in the same picture.
Excepts from several sources relevant to questions about Quakers and the military.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West and beyond, August 9, 2018, concerning ways that Friends meetings support -- and fail to support -- veterans and members of the military who jo
Notes from an online conversation among organizers of the 2018 Annual Sessions of Intermountain Yearly Meeting, North Pacific Yearly Meeting, and Pacific Yearly Meeting, examining their experiences
Notes from an online conversation among organizers of the 2018 Annual Sessions of Intermountain Yearly Meeting and North Pacific Yearly Meeting, examining their experiences with first-time implemen
In her autobiography, Life on Two Levels (1978), Quaker dynamo Josephine Duveneck tells of a year when she provided a foster home in Los Altos Hills, CA, to a seven-year-old Jewish boy from Germany, while Hitler was rising to power in Europe. “What a sweet little personality he was . . .
