Courage and Compassion

It is a joy and a challenge, but also often a frustration, to prepare issues of Friends Journal months in… Susan Corson-Finnerty

AFSC and the Terrorist War

American Friends Service Committee was created in war, and it has nearly as much experience and—I would say—more wisdom in… J. William Frost

Peace Is Patriotic

So we're at war. Friends Journal contributor

Gender, Integrity, and Spirituality: A Personal Journey

For most of the first 40 years of my life I would not have said that I was a very… Petra L. Doan

Learning from Sarah Douglass

In 1833, Sarah Mapps Douglass, an African American educator, moved from her home in Philadelphia to New York City to… Margaret Hope Bacon

A Quaker Feminist’s Perspective on Transsexual Concerns

From the January 2002 issue of Friends Journal What moves me, a biological woman who is happy with my lot,… Rose Ketterer

An Honors Retreat in Colorado

It’s lonely out on the front lines. Ask anyone who’s spent time working with homeless people, or with children on… William Charland

A Meeting Housed in a Condominium

Faith can move mountains, or in this case, move a monthly meeting from a classroom to its own space, a… Claire Bateman

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