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Military Schoolkids: Kiss These Books Goodbye! – Hegseth /Trump Censorship Starts

The DOD “guidance” memo was blunt: ”Identity Months Dead at DOD.” Besides banning Black History Month observances in the military, Hegseth/Trump is now pressing their anti-DEI extermination mission by purging the shelves of Defense Department schools, which 67, 000 elementary & secondary students attend at 160 locations worldwide. (One of them was me, a long … Continue reading Military Schoolkids: Kiss These Books Goodbye! – Hegseth /Trump Censorship Starts →

New Issue of “Types & Shadows” – Quaker Arts Journal-Online NOW (Free)

You can read and browse it here free: Types & Shadows is the quarterly journal of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. (FQA) It first appeared in 1996, and has been produced ever since by dedicated and creative volunteers. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) were strongly against the arts for their first … Continue reading New Issue of “Types & Shadows” – Quaker Arts Journal-Online NOW (Free) →

The Shadow at the Pride Festival

A year ago last Saturday, the Friends Meeting I’m part of took a big step, for us: we rented a booth at the Alamance Pride Festival, held in a large park in downtown Burlington NC. Outwardly, our booth was not particularly eye-catching. Amid the fluttering of a thousand floating rainbows, the yellow table banner we … Continue reading The Shadow at the Pride Festival →

“Tell It Slant”: Author Emma Lapsansky-Werner Speaks

This excerpt is adapted from the new book, Tell It Slant, which charts Chuck Fager’s prophetic life of adventure & writing on religion, war, and justice, love and laughter. Tell It Slant is available now, in paperback & Kindle versions. Details here. By Emma Lapsansky-Werner A short bio: Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner is emeritus Professor of … Continue reading “Tell It Slant”: Author Emma Lapsansky-Werner Speaks →

For Memorial Day: A Book From The Other “Front Line” Of Our Wars

For several years I frequently visited Camp Lejeune, the large Marine base on the North Carolina coast, about three hours east of where I lived. I went because they had a brig — a jail — and several of the troops I had worked with as resisters to war served time in it. I went … Continue reading For Memorial Day: A Book From The Other “Front Line” Of Our Wars →