Category Archives: Quakers

Coming June 19, “Tell It Slant”: The Author Speaks

A Preview “A life generously served on wry with plenty of mustard and no cheese, Emma Lapsansky-Werner’s compilation with Chuck Fager on his eighty years captures his unique synthesis of investigative journalism with religious concern, activist engagement with theological reflection, Quaker identity with wide-ranging, empathetic identifications. Chuck’s story traces an engaging trajectory through our era, … Continue reading Coming June 19, “Tell It Slant”: The Author Speaks →

“Tell It Slant”: Excerpt #3: “… A Whippersnapper and His Elders …”

“… A Whippersnapper and His Elders …” Adapted from Tell It Slant. This new book recounts Chuck Fager’s prophetic life of adventure & writing on religion, war, justice, love and laughter. By Emma Lapsansky-Werner, with Chuck Fager. Tell It Slant is available now, in paperback and Kindle, here. After two years of attending Friends meetings, … Continue reading “Tell It Slant”: Excerpt #3: “… A Whippersnapper and His Elders …” →

Coming Tomorrow from “Tell It Slant”: Fighting for a Future

Wednesday June 12, I’ll post the first in a series of excerpts from Tell It Slant, the new biography of Chuck Fager by Emma Lapsansky-Werner. It’s a story of life in “interesting times,” and begins with two of its main motifs — religion and war — shaping lives and events. Watch for it on this … Continue reading Coming Tomorrow from “Tell It Slant”: Fighting for a Future →

Announcing: A Very Special Quaker Publishing Award

For years, I’ve been loudly protesting the sky-high, exclusionary prices on “academic” or “scholarly” books and monographs. The particular focus of my ire has been publications by or about Quakers and Quakerism, though the price-gouging has infected many other fields of study. Today I want to recognize and celebrate a successful challenge to this uber-inflationary … Continue reading Announcing: A Very Special Quaker Publishing Award →

Yikes!! AI Is Coming for My JOB — Even Though I’m Already Retired!

Tom Edsall writes a very valuable weekly column in the New York Times, and he’s paid a lot of attention to the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Like other observers, he’s particularly concerned about AI’s developing impact on jobs and society, present and future. In his June 5 column, Edsall picks the brains of several scholars … Continue reading Yikes!! AI Is Coming for My JOB — Even Though I’m Already Retired! →