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FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS | STITCHER Read the article: Framing the Light Subscribe to FJ’s podcast series. You can listen online from our website or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or other podcast players. The post Interview with Jean Schnell, author of “Framing the Light” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS | STITCHER Read the article: Framing the Light Subscribe to FJ’s podcast series. You can listen online from our website or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or other podcast players. The post Interview with Jean Schnell, author of “Framing the Light” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: When I first became interested in photography in 2005, I took a class in composition. As part of an assignment, I began to photograph the Quaker meeting that I attend. When I shared the pictures with members of my meeting, I had my first direct personal experience of photographs touching a viewer and […] The post Author Jean Schnell reads “Framing the Light” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: When I first became interested in photography in 2005, I took a class in composition. As part of an assignment, I began to photograph the Quaker meeting that I attend. When I shared the pictures with members of my meeting, I had my first direct personal experience of photographs touching a viewer and […] The post Author Jean Schnell reads “Framing the Light” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: As a 25-year-old “almost Quaker,” I am standing at the edges of the faith and in the dead center of a sort of predictable uncertainty. Questions of how to honestly present my whole self to the world occupy my mind daily. A good part of this uncertainty, for me and perhaps for many […] The post Interview with Peter Moretzsohn, author of “Are You a Friend?” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: As a 25-year-old “almost Quaker,” I am standing at the edges of the faith and in the dead center of a sort of predictable uncertainty. Questions of how to honestly present my whole self to the world occupy my mind daily. A good part of this uncertainty, for me and perhaps for many […] The post Interview with Peter Moretzsohn, author of “Are You a Friend?” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: About eight years ago, I was driving on the main road near my new home in California’s Central Valley. I live near Sequoia National Park. The valley below the park has some of the largest citrus groves and vineyards in the state. This is one of the places John Steinbeck visited early in […] The post Author Andrew Glazier reads “The Billboard” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: About eight years ago, I was driving on the main road near my new home in California’s Central Valley. I live near Sequoia National Park. The valley below the park has some of the largest citrus groves and vineyards in the state. This is one of the places John Steinbeck visited early in […] The post Author Andrew Glazier reads “The Billboard” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an open letter in which they acknowledged their homosexuality or bisexuality and invited others to discuss issues of concern, both within AFSC and in the larger community. Eventually over 200 signed the “statement of support and […] The post Interview with Stephen McNeil, author of “Proclaiming Love and Justice” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an open letter in which they acknowledged their homosexuality or bisexuality and invited others to discuss issues of concern, both within AFSC and in the larger community. Eventually over 200 signed the “statement of support and […] The post Interview with Stephen McNeil, author of “Proclaiming Love and Justice” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Poetry reading: In L.A. it opens and drags down whole buildings. Here, in Vermont, the woods resound / with the crack of trees under ice. No one is safe: / cars have been sliding off the road on broken bridges, / on slick roads black with cold. The post Poet Lynn Martin reads “Weather Is What She Has to Say” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Poetry reading: In L.A. it opens and drags down whole buildings. Here, in Vermont, the woods resound / with the crack of trees under ice. No one is safe: / cars have been sliding off the road on broken bridges, / on slick roads black with cold. The post Poet Lynn Martin reads “Weather Is What She Has to Say” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: At four years old, she had no way of knowing that one day she would again tell her mother she was a girl—this time definitively—or that her gender identity would help set the wheels in motion for a new policy at George School to support transgender students. The post Author Laura Noel reads “Affirming Ivy” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: At four years old, she had no way of knowing that one day she would again tell her mother she was a girl—this time definitively—or that her gender identity would help set the wheels in motion for a new policy at George School to support transgender students. The post Author Laura Noel reads “Affirming Ivy” appeared first on Friends Journal.

FJ Podcast: As a peace and justice organization, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) places its work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and recognition within an international human rights framework and draws on the historic Quaker witness for peace. The post Author Stephen McNeil reading “Proclaiming Love and Justice” appeared first on Friends Journal.