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"For dinner this evening / I’ll take the Serrano ham and sheep cheese..."

FJ Podcast: As a 25-year-old “almost Quaker,” I am standing at the edges of the faith and in the dead center of a sort of predictable uncertainty. Questions of how to honestly present my whole self to the world occupy my mind daily. A good part of this uncertainty, for me and perhaps for many others, is the conundrum of identity and the intersection of its social aspect with the personal. Somewhere in that intersection falls my religious identity.

Our communities are not beacons of the Spirit simply on the basis of being called "Quaker."