Serving Community Peacekeepers

A Friend finds a path to peacemaking by becoming a police chaplain.

Bayard Rustin at Swarthmore College

Bayard Rustin’s spiritual depth has been widely overlooked and deserves to be brought back to our attention.
Features

Martha Ellicott Tyson

A profile of the Baltimore Quaker elder and minister (1795-1873) Virginia Schurman

Modern Germany and the Lessons of WWII

I recently spent a fascinating two weeks as part of the Transatlantic Outreach Program’s (TOP) study tour of Germany. Traveling…
Book Club

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more… Staff

April Forum 2012

Fetishization of biblical passages I was glad to see David Zarembka’s letter about African Friends in your February issue. I…

May Forum 2012

Lucretia, I wish I had known you! For twenty years I’ve helped tend the grave of Quaker abolitionist and women’s…

Walking From Shadows Into Light

“. . . for we walk by faith not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) As a retired person, walking has become…

April News 2012

FWCC General Secretary nomination Gretchen Castle of Philadelphia nominated to serve as FWCC General Secretary. The Central Executive Committee of Friends…

April Milestones 2012

Anthony—James W. Anthony, 73, on July 15, 2009, in Sudbury, Mass. Jim was born on June 17, 1936, in Columbus,…

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the…

No Religion. Always Practicing Quakerism.

Quakerism was not my first choice.  When I was 17 and decided to visit some churches, I originally thought the Unitarian…
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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

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A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

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Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

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