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The Work of Many Hands
This issue arrives with an innovation—a removable cover wrap giving readers advance notice of our forthcoming special issue on "Friends…
Palm Beach (Fla.) Meeting Minute of Grave Concern
On November 13, 2004, Palm Beach Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Lake Worth, Florida, sponsored a meeting…
Wait and Watch: Meeting for Worship as Spiritual Practice
When I first began attending meeting for worship I did not know what to expect. I knew that Quaker meetings…
Contemplating Torture
When U.S. political leaders debate the ethics and efficacy of torture, we need to consider how our country arrived at…
The Heart of My Enemy: Rwandan Friends Rebuilding after Genocide
If, for example, you see your children being killed by machetes and that stays in your mind, that can cause…
Speaking across the Divide: Cecile Nyiramana at St. Louis Meeting, June 29, 2005
Cecile Nyiramana, secretary to the legal representative (akin to general secretary) of Rwanda Yearly Meeting, visited the United States as…
Consolations of Light
My daughter Alice’s life was changed forever last summer when we returned home from an idyllic vacation in upstate New…
The Importance of Language–Or: Why I Threw My Teenage Son's CDs into the Trash Can
The language kids hear and use certainly has changed since I was a youngster. What would have seemed shocking and…
A Day Off in the Life of an Intern
It’s spring in Washington, D.C. There is a war on. I’m walking down the National Mall, surrounded by people, flags,…
Zen and the Quakers: A Meditation
At Friendship Meeting in Greensboro, N.C., a few years ago, our Friend DeWitt Barnett told of the time he was…
Parenting and 'Childing'
When we say "Our Father who art in heaven," we involve the image of parenting, an image that unites us…
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Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist
April 1, 2024
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
April 1, 2024
Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
April 1, 2024