The yellowing pages of 80-year-old AFSC relief pamphlets inspire a new sense of agency.
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Camilla Meek lives in Durham, N.C., where she has attended Durham Meeting and Guilford College Meeting. She served as a director of communications for Guilford College. Meek has a BA degree in fine arts and an MBA in marketing.
Special thanks to Don Davis of the AFSC Archives.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Contempt Is a Bitter-Tasting Word
Rebuilding community among people who do not agree.
J. E. McNeil is an attorney and a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) with a master’s in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University. She has trained thousands in different matters around the country and is currently providing training by request on “Conversations with the Other.”
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Life in a Box
The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in 2015–16 in Boston, Mass. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Making Sense of the Starbucks Incident
Quaker values do not need to be mere theoretical ideas.
Ankita Achanta is a seventh-grade student at Newtown Friends School (NFS) in Newtown, Pa. She participates in The Agents of Social Change (TASC) at NFS, a student group founded on the belief that “we will be able to make a difference in our world,” and that uses Quaker process in decision making.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
A Quaker Perspective on Hope
Hopelessness and burnout lead a Friend to rediscover an archaic form of hope.
Kate Davies is a member of Whidbey Island (Wash.) Meeting and author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. She is also senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute and professor emeritus at Antioch University.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Prophetic, Persistent, Powerful
Friends Committee on National Legislation at 75
Bridget Moix is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and serves as the clerk of FCNL’s General Committee. She has worked for more than two decades on international peace and conflict issues with a focus on U.S. foreign policy.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
What People Really Want from Church and Quaker Meeting
Looking at successful church growth models for ideas to grow our fellowship.
Donald W. McCormick, [email protected]​gmail.​com, is a member of Grass Valley Meeting in Nevada City, Calif. He is director of education for Unified Mindfulness, a company that trains mindfulness teachers. The senior editor of Friends Journal described his February article, “Can Quakerism Survive?,” as “the most talked about article in recent history.”
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
The Future Is Accessible
A silent podcast goes viral and points to ways to share Quakerism.
Jessica Hubbard-Bailey is the host and executive producer of Young Quaker Podcast and a member of her local meeting in the United Kingdom.
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
Open for Liberation: A View from Britain
It may come as a surprise, but people are interested in Friends.
Tim Gee is a member of Britain Yearly Meeting and was the 2017 George Gorman Lecturer. His third book, Why I Am a Pacifist, will be published next year.
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
Tapping a Viral Energy
Lifting the bondage, embracing the future, and making Quakerism a viable reality once more.
Robert Henry is pastor of Indianapolis (Ind.) First Friends Meeting. He is a speaker, activist, neighborhood collaborator, and avid artist. He lives in Fishers, Ind., with his wife and three boys.
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
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