An American Friend looks at the strong community at his Kenyan church.
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Life at Lumakanda Friends Church
David Zarembka is a Quaker peace activist in Eastern Africa. Since 2007, he has lived in Lumakanda, a small town in western Kenya, with his Kenyan wife, Gladys Kamonya. David writes a weekly blog, Reports from Kenya, on current happenings in East Africa. To sign up, contact him at [email protected]
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House
An unprogrammed meeting in the West African nation of Ghana.
Kumah Drah loves nature and is attempting to set up a permaculture center to promote sustainable living. He is a member of Hill House Meeting in Accra, Ghana, and loves to join other meetings for worship when he travels.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Leadings of the Spirit
American and South African activists brings election monitoring to Cape Town suburbs.
A member of Cape Eastern Meeting in South Africa, Rommel Roberts has been an activist in various human rights, development, and nonviolent election campaigns. Through his work with Bishop Tutu, he traveled internationally among Friends and others to develop anti-apartheid support. He is the author of Seeds of Peace.
Robin Roberts, originally from California, is involved with rural and township development work, focused especially on Black youth and women. She and Rommel have fostered two girls for the past seven years. She is an internationally known artist.
Lark Worth of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa., met Rommel in 1987 when he toured Philadelphia-area meetings and Quaker schools with the challenging question: âHow do we love in the face of fear and hate?â
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Empowering Women against Genderâbased Violence
The story of Burundiâs Friends Womenâs Association.
Parfaite Ntahuba is one of the three female pastors from the Evangelical Friends Church of Burundi. She is the senior pastor in Kamenge Meeting, which has more than 2,500 members, and the national coordinator of Friends Womenâs Association.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
The Place of Godâs Own Choosing
The founding of the mission in Kaimosi, Kenya.
Eden Grace is a member of New England Yearly Meeting and has served since 2013 as director of global ministries for Friends United Meeting (FUM). She spent nine years as a field officer for FUM at the Africa Ministries Office in Kisumu, Kenya. Eden describes her ministry as decolonizing Quaker mission. This article was adapted from the 2019 Michener Lecture of Southeastern Yearly Meeting, and reprinted with permission.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Quaker Christianity in Kenya
A Kenyan shamanistic spirituality was fertile ground for Quaker missionaries.
Stanley Chagala Ngesa, a fourth-generation Kenyan Quaker raised in the Maragoli Hills of Western Kenya in the traditions of both Christian Quakerism and the traditional spirituality of his people, is currently a postgraduate student of Quaker studies at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind. He holds an MDiv degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary and has worked as a chaplain at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Spiritual Simplicity
Thereâs more to simplicity than tidying up our physical spaces.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass. in 2015â16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
My Year of Living Eschatologically
Awareness of end times comes to a Friend diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Muriel (Mickey) Edgerton is a lifelong Friend, having grown up in the Midwest in Friends United Meeting pastoral worship. She is a graduate of Earlham School of Religion and has been a hospice chaplain for the past 25 years. A 60-year member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting, she is a 15-year resident of Foulkeways at Gwynedd.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Selling Out to Niceness
The Religious Society of Friendsâ witness is hidden when we elevate niceness over kindness.
Ann Jerome is a member of Orlando (Fla.) Meeting in Southeastern Yearly Meeting. She has twice helped to found worship groups where she lives in Deland, Fla. Recently she served for two years as a Friend in residence at Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pa.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
A Quaker Schoolâs Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Transparency and integrity are put to the test when a decadesâold scandal is revealed.
Erik Hanson is one of the news editors for Friends Journal, along with his wife, Windy Cooler. Erik has served as a friendly adult presence in Baltimore Yearly Meetingâs Youth Program since 2005. He taught English and math at Friends Community School in College Park, Md., from 2006 to 2008.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Features
Life at Lumakanda Friends Church by David Zarembka
Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House by Kumah Drah
Leadings of the Spirit by Rommel Roberts, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth
Empowering Women against Genderâbased Violence by Parfaite Ntahuba
The Place of Godâs Own Choosing by Eden Grace
Quaker Christianity in Kenya by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
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Quaker Silence in Community by Pat Meehan
Spelunking: What My Father Taught Me About the Light by Geoff Knowlton
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