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Friends from birth, Ray and Carole Treadway each have a different Quaker family history. Carole looks back to many generations…

Quaker scientist? That’s how Kent Thornburg describes himself. He was born into a Quaker family, and his parents recognized and…

Help a child wrestle with a complex idea, or advocate for a child’s right to education, an adequate diet, and…

This is a strange image—backward and forward—but perhaps a helpful one for Friends in 2006. As I was re-reading John…

The question had to be asked, right at the beginning: was she named for Althea Gibson, a tennis player whom…

Barbara Mays, a musician, writer/editor and mother, describes herself first as a Hoosier. She returned to Richmond, Indiana, in the…

With Demie Kurz, conversation about life, family, work, and beliefs is laced with phrases of feeling—"I love . . .…

Joe Franko became a Quaker through a brief friendship with Rick, a conscientious objector he met in Vietnam in the…

I visited with the Moores in their compact apartment (which they share with Anne’s large loom!) at the Hickman, a…

John Munson describes himself as "a Quaker, a Pacific Northwesterner, and an internationalist. I’ve been a lawyer for more than…