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Let Suffering Stop Here
I’ve recently read an article in the New York Times detailing the Bush administration’s plans to launch an attack on…
Susan Corson-Finnerty
Can We Provide Financial Resources for Medical Care?
The following was in Reports and Epistles (FJ Mar.): "Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is concerned that many persons in the…
Paul Buckley
What Can Love Do?
It is written in the book of Micah, "And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice,…
Amanda Hoffman
A Quaker at Ground Zero
The Family Assistance Center (FAC) described below was located in a historic railroad terminal/museum at Liberty State Park in Jersey…
John Blum
Reclaiming Baptism
Nothing becomes a cliché faster than the truth. An insightful or witty person will find a new turn of phrase…
Paul Buckley
Ruach, Chutzpah, and Creativity
Quaker women’s retreats can be fertile ground for new insights, friendships, and spiritual inspiration. However, the real reasons that I…
Susan Hubbard
Benjamin Lundy, Pioneer Quaker Abolitionist
Benjamin Lundy, like many young men of his time restless and sketchily educated, longed for new places and experiences. The…
Suzanne R. Wicks
Rainbow Sign
Spring is a time of unpredictable and spectacular storms. Last spring, on my way to visit a friend, brilliant shafts…
Amy Carter Holloway Gomez
Quaker Service in Cape Town, South Africa
Quaker Service, Cape, in Cape Town, South Africa, has reinterpreted the ancient tradition of alms-giving in the modern developing world.…
Sarah Ruden
To Tell or Not to Tell
“What is this, some kind of parenting thing?" This, the response from my 35-year-old daughter when I informed her that…
Henry Stark
Clerking
My basic premise is that the disciplines of clerking a meeting for worship for business and facilitating a business meeting…
Mary McClure
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