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On Sale Now: Quakers and the Search for Peace

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The latest anthology from Friends Journal is now available! Drawn from the rich archives of Friends Journal, this book illuminates the many aspects of Friends’ most central and most public spiritual testimony: a search for peace.

Dear Deborah

One of the most articulate people I ever knew was angry at God because her parents had been abusive emotionally, physically, and sexually—in the name of religion. It saddened me to watch this young person, who had a very spiritual nature, cutting off all routes by which God might minister to her pain. Here is the message I wish I could have written in the mid-'80s to a young woman named Deborah . . .

August 2010

August 2010

When I was Thirsty

By Michael Pratt

On the Sonoran border in sizzling heat, we are sacrificing people to the environment.

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How Do Friends Know What They Know?

For Friends, the source of our knowledge and belief is not a mere academic quandary. Without an authoritative statement of belief such as a creed, we are especially called upon to seek clarity for what we hold to be true and espouse to the world at large. . . .

On Appreciation

What if appreciation is a mighty key for nonresistance? What if it is a mighty key for opening the heart? What if appreciation evaporates our need to complain to God about life being unfair . . .
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