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March 2013: Sexuality

March 2013Focus on Sexuality

Interviews

FJ Interview with Al Vernacchio

Al Vernacchio’s article, “Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality” appears in the March 2013 issue of Friends Journal. Al teaches sexuality… Al Vernacchio

Among Friends: How Friends Journal is Funded

A letter from the Friends Journal executive director. Gabriel Ehri

Forum March 2013

Letters from our readers. Staff
Features

Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality

Discussing sexuality in the Quaker classroom. Al Vernacchio
Features

Loving the Difficult People

Tales from a Phone Sex Operator Karen Ainslee
Features

Toward a Testimony of Intimacy

Let’s face it: we don’t like to talk about sex. Most people don’t, but Quakers are especially reluctant. We also… Douglas C. Bennett

From a Quaker View of Sex

Quick! Name the most influential document published by British Quakers in the twentieth century. It’s probably a 1963 pamphlet entitled… Mitchell Santine Gould
Features

Bringing Sexual Abuse to Light

A meeting learns to be supportive in the wake of sexual abuse. Melissa Levine and Betsy Neale

The Law, Grace, and Homosexuality

There are two radically different ways of reading the Bible; we can approach it under the Law or under Grace.… Edward Elder

Q&A: Peggy Brick

In the 1970s, the sexual revolution was challenging traditional sexual values and I was invited to develop full-year psychology and… Jana Llewellyn
Departments

Film Review: The Sessions

In one memorable scene from The Sessions, Father Brendan (played by William H. Macy) reflects during confession, “It’s amazing how… Reviewed by Jana Llewellyn

Books March 2013

Books Reviewed: "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco. "Dorothee Soelle: Mystic and Rebel" by…

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