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Interview with Ron McDonald, author of This Age of Insecurity

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power. Ron McDonald
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Interview with Kevin Rutledge, author of Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa

Read: Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa Subscribe to FJ’s podcast series. You can listen online from our website or subscribe to… Kevin Rutledge
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Author chat with Raed Jarrar on living in Baghdad and discovering the AFSC

We’re still considered among the lucky ones. We lost our country, our friends, and many of our belongings, but we… Raed Jarrar
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Interview with Lynn and Steve Newsom of Quaker House

A Friends Journal interview with the directors of Fayetteville, N.C.’s Quaker House. You can also watch the video of this interview.… Lynn and Steve Newsom
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Author chat with Ralph G. Steinhardt, on the humanity and Inhumanity of the Manhattan Project

What does Quakerism require of us when we hold someone in the Light? It is easy enough for me to… Ralph G. Steinhardt
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Author chat with David Harrington Watt on the continued educational work around Hiroshima and Nagasaki

we believe that certain lessons can be drawn from historians’ accounts of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One lesson… David Harrington Watt
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Author Jack Ciancio on supporting post-traumatic stress disorder victims

Author reading. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the emotional ghost of a life-threatening event. It lingers in the shadows of… Jack Ciancio
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Author Ralph G. Steinhardt reads his poignant story, “Memories of My Father’s Memories”

Author reading. Ralph G. Steinhardt
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Reflections from St. Petersburg, Russia

Life in Russia also brings moments of unexpected warmth, goodness, and humanity. It brings people together and forms instant, deep… Pola Lem

Diplomacy Is Not a Sprint

Glen Retief’s recent letter to Friends Journal, “A Pacifist Reconsiders Military Action in Syria,” reflects the dilemma many Friends feel… Diane Randall
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A Pacifist Reconsiders Military Action in Syria

A foreign-born Quaker pacifist abstains from the missile strikes debate. Glen Retief
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Syria As a Tipping Point

I don’t know how to create transformation on a global scale, but “let us see what love can do.” Susan C. Hefte
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