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From “Tell It Slant,” Excerpt #2: Encouraging Rejections

(Excerpt #1 is here.) In the spring of 1956 — Chuck was in eighth grade — orders came for the family to leave an Air Force base in California. His father, now a major, was...

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...

A Sparkling New Podcast on “Tell It Slant” – The Biography of Chuck Fager

Announcing A Brand-New, free podcast, now online at the link below: Tell It Slant-Podcast with Emma, Chuck & Mark A Review of Tell It Slant By Dan Whitley (Chuck, here is...

A History of NOW and its Women who Made History

The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s Clara BinghamSat...

Let’s Go Goatwalking, Friends

Jim Corbett was a fascinating guy, but like all of us he had his faults. In his amazing first book, he way overdid the self-deprecation: ”Goatwalking is a book for saddlebag or backpack —to live...

John Calvi: Boon Companion for Spiritual Travel

English-speaking Quakers today are in dire need of some new “spiritual” books, and I have a top candidate to recommend here. It is John Calvi’s How far Have You Traveled? Amid all the wonderful stuff...

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Examines the strategy & tactics, successes & failures, history & future of faith-based work to end war, and to dismantle militarism and the repression it has spawned.

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Examines the neglected role of Progressive Quakers in 19th and 20th century activism -- abolition, women's rights & more.

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How Progressive Quaker activism helped change America.

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A new collection of jokes, humorous anecdotes, cartoons and graphics about Quakers.

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A Happy/Sad Anniversary: Occupy Wall Street Began 14 years ago on Sept. 17, 2011

Chuck Fager September 17, 2025

[This post shamelessly shared from history.com] The edge of Zuccotti Park, NYC, a few days before the cops cleared it. Photos by me. On September 17,...

It’s “War”?? Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” — Day One

Chuck Fager September 6, 2025

The opening: “You Think You’ve Seen ‘Shock & Awe’”?? (Trump posted this AI fantasy on Truth Social early Saturday) “The president offered no details beyond the label “Chipocalypse Now,” a...

Pritzker Throws Down: “I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.”

Chuck Fager August 25, 2025

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, August 25, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here are excerpts from his...

Who?? Happy Birthday to One of the Most Important Quaker Writers Most of Us Never Heard of

Chuck Fager August 24, 2025

Milton Mayer was born on August 24, 1908. He was a journalist, scholar, moral philosopher, terrific writer — and a Quaker. A Jewish Quaker. A southerner Jewish Quaker. He wrote...

How MAGA Out-Trolled Me (I Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up!)

Chuck Fager August 23, 2025

Ghislane Maxwell’s perjurious and empty DOJ “testimony” about St. Donald, cried out, it seemed to me, for a parody pushback. So this morning I cranked up my snark machine and...

Resistance Vacation Reading #5: I Hate Dill Pickles: But There’s More to the Story

Chuck Fager August 22, 2025

I Hate Dill Pickles: But There’s More to the Story A Nearby City, Spring 2007 Sara Rahman was my best friend that year. And some of the best times...

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