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Susan Corson-Finnerty is on vacation while this issue is being prepared. For me, summer is not a time to be… Robert Dockhorn

Please respect the need for privacy

Every year, I eagerly await the Gathering. It is the one week of the year that is completely mine. I… Linda Goldstein

Unpalatable Truths

I thought I knew the costs of war. They had fueled my outrage over the arrogance, the ignorance, and the… Burton Housman

Friends and Torture

To get at the issue of Friends and torture, let me start with the Bible, specifically a parable—what I think… Chuck Fager

Friends and Cyberspace

My interest in Quakerism has grown steadily over the past decade during my tenure as an English teacher and more… Mark Franek

God Does Not Need Your Cash

So there I was . . . On Saturday night, most weeks of my childhood, freshly scrubbed out of the… Peggy Senger Parsons

The Meeting School after 50 Years

What if we could have the kind of schools that prepared youngsters for the kind of world we should have,… Mary DesRosiers

Living Truth at The Woolman Semester

In late 2003 I was at a peak of emotional and spiritual turmoil. I was teaching middle and high school… Elizabeth De Sa

Mending the World

Our world is torn and broken. Many parts of it are not working. There are great tears and gashes, holes… Pamela Haines

Living Outside the Box

Sometimes in meeting for worship we are knocked off our comfortable seats by revelations arising from messages from without and… Fran Palmeri

On Being a Grandmother

Everyone said just wait—being a grandmother is the most wonderful thing in the world. I thought to myself: yeah, yeah…whatever!… Connie McPeak Green

Thoughts on the Peace Testimony

I have been struggling with what to say about the Peace Testimony for several weeks now. Every time I think… Elizabeth A. Osuch
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