All posts by Chuck Fager

A Call for a New “Quaker World” [In “scholarly” publishing, and a sample thereof . . .

[NOTE: the essay below is one of 61 chapters in a new book, The Quaker World, published in November 2022 by Routledge. I am posting it here as a witness to the conviction that such Quaker scholarly and historical work should be widely and conveniently available. Unfortunately, in its present form, it is not. That’s because … Continue reading A Call for a New “Quaker World” [In “scholarly” publishing, and a sample thereof . . . →

Breaking: Appeals Court Backs Justice Dept., Drop-Kicks Trump’s Florida Lawsuit

AP News: Trump probe: Court halts Mar-a-Lago special master review BY ERIC TUCKER — December 1, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous federal appeals court on Thursday ended an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention … Continue reading Breaking: Appeals Court Backs Justice Dept., Drop-Kicks Trump’s Florida Lawsuit →

Indiana AG Targets Doctor who helped 10 year-old rape victim

Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect.

O.M.G. – What Goes Around Really DOES . . .

More Republicans Died Than Democrats after COVID-19 Vaccines Came Out By YALE UNIVERSITY Futurity — NOVEMBER 30, 2022 The sharp divergence in excess death rates that emerged in the post-vaccine period “is pretty striking… and the magnitudes are quite large.” CORONAVIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH A new study looks at excess deaths by partisan affiliation in two … Continue reading O.M.G. – What Goes Around Really DOES . . . →

Quaker Book Review: “The Living Remnant” Rides Again

The Living Remnant & Other Quaker Tales. By “KKK,” (Edith Florence O’Brien.) Published by Headley Brothers in UK, 1900. A Friend came across this book and passed along a link. It’s a series of four related stories about a tightly-knit (i. e., very insular) British Quaker meeting community, in about 1875. The “tales” portray, … Continue reading Quaker Book Review: “The Living Remnant” Rides Again →