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Feeling Light Within, I Walk - Review

• Authored by:
• Dorothy Blackcrow Mack

Feeling Light Within, I Walk: Tales, Adventures & Reflections of a Quaker Activist

On Superiority (July 2013)

Manifest Destiny Revisited

• Authored by:
• Laurie Childers

Manifest Destiny Revisited

On Superiority (July 2013)

A Letter from 1900

• Authored by:
• William Burgess

Editors Friends' Intelligencer:

On Love (September 2013)

Collaborators - Review

• Authored by:
• Nancy Wood

Collaborators by Deborah Wheeler

On Patriotism (January 2014)

White America’s Myth of the Black Male

• Authored by:
• David Zarembka

I received more reaction to my posting, The Iconification of Nelson Mandela and American Racism, than for any other of the 257 postings that I had done in almost seven years. Some of the responses were supportive, some critical, and some “yes, but.” Below is my original newsletter article, followed by a sampling of the responses.

On Patriotism (January 2014)

A Quaker Patriotism

• Authored by:
• Warren Ostrom

Find a lesson plan here, for using this article with children in First Day School.

On Patriotism (January 2014)

A Short History of Ben Lomond Quaker Center - Review

• Authored by:
• Paul L. Niebanck

A Short History of Ben Lomond Quaker Center by John deValcourt

On Time (March 2014)

Do Quakers Mean Business?

• Authored by:
• Rob Pierson

Recently a Methodist church invited me to a book study. They had been reading books on ethically based business, including Deborah Cadbury’s Chocolate Wars, and had grown wildly curious about these peculiar Quakers and their century and a half of confectionary success. The group leader tabulated a list of famous Quaker business leaders – not only in cocoa, but also in ironwork, railways, footwear, chinaware, household goods, pharmaceuticals, and banking. Why, she asked, was the list so long? Why were there so many Friendly industrial innovators? Why so many business names they now recognized as Quaker – from Cadbury chocolates to Barclays bank to Clarks shoes? What was it about this relatively small, seemingly austere, and ethically demanding faith that drove such a disproportionate share of business enterprise?

On Production (May 2014)

Let's Stretch Our Quaker Process

• Authored by:
• Keith Wedmore

Dear Friends: One task that we surely have is to change the world for the better.  But we are far from good at this. How do our yearly meetings help?

On Production (May 2014)

Walk Against Fracking to Friends General Conference

• Authored by:
• George Lakey

Dear Friends: The FGC Gathering this year (6/29 –7/5) will be conveniently located near Appalachia, Ohio, and the headquarters of PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PNC is the #1 funder of fracking in Pennsylvania. Ohio is an important state for PNC in terms of its depositors.

On Production (May 2014)