FJ Interview with Al Vernacchio

Al Vernacchio’s article, “Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality” appears in the March 2013 issue of Friends Journal. Al teaches sexuality at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, Pa. FRIENDS JOURNAL: You’ve written an article about teaching sexual education in the Quaker classroom. How did Liberal Friends get to be on the forefront of talking about sexuality? [...]

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Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality

Discussing sexuality in the Quaker classroom.

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Loving the Difficult People

Tales from a Phone Sex Operator

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Toward a Testimony of Intimacy

Let’s face it: we don’t like to talk about sex. Most people don’t, but Quakers are especially reluctant. We also need to face this: some Quakers are certain homosexuality is a sin, and others are just as sure it is not. How can each side be so certain, however, if none of us wants to talk about sex?

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Bringing Sexual Abuse to Light

A meeting learns to be supportive in the wake of sexual abuse.

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Thanks and Wow: Two Prayers from Anne Lamott’s Latest

This post continues our online book discussion of Anne Lamott’s Help, Thanks, Wow, the Friends Journal selection for February. Chapter Two: Thanks. One of the things that’s easy to say but hard to do for human beings is feel grateful for what we have. We too often see (and want) what we don’t have—through television, [...]

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Healing Touch

The power of love and hands in a hospital room.

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A Clerk’s Lesson from Occupy

A meeting makes quick decisions and learns to more fully trust Quaker process.

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