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Among Friends: How Friends Journal is Funded
A letter from the Friends Journal executive director.
Forum March 2013
Letters from our readers.
Features
Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality
Discussing sexuality in the Quaker classroom.
Al Vernacchio
Features
Loving the Difficult People
Tales from a Phone Sex Operator
Karen Ainslee
Features
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…
Douglas C. Bennett
From a Quaker View of Sex
Quick! Name the most influential document published by British Quakers in the twentieth century. It’s probably a 1963 pamphlet entitled…
Mitchell Santine Gould
Features
Bringing Sexual Abuse to Light
A meeting learns to be supportive in the wake of sexual abuse.
Melissa Levine and Betsy Neale
The Law, Grace, and Homosexuality
There are two radically different ways of reading the Bible; we can approach it under the Law or under Grace.…
Q&A: Peggy Brick
In the 1970s, the sexual revolution was challenging traditional sexual values and I was invited to develop full-year psychology and…
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Film Review: The Sessions
In one memorable scene from The Sessions, Father Brendan (played by William H. Macy) reflects during confession, “It’s amazing how…
Reviewed by Jana Llewellyn
Milestones March 2013
Marriage Harris and Smith—Jennifer Chapin-Smith (a member of Maryland’s Adelphi Meeting, nee Jennifer Chapin Harris) and Alexi Chapin-Smith (nee Alexi…
Forum, February 2013
The value of silence I very much enjoyed the latest issue on hospitality (FJ, December 2012), and especially Terry Miller’s…
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Inner Healing, Inner Peace: A Quaker Perspective
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