Crossing Cultures

October 2016: Crossing Cultures

We Think We’re Separate
Robin Mohr
What Unites Us
Gretchen Castle
Quaker Indian Boarding Schools
Paula Palmer
Reaching Out and Across
Jane Fremon
FJ Book Reviews

Among Friends: Expanding the Definition of Home

An introduction to our issue on "Crossing Cultures."
Features

We Think We’re Separate

Quaker honesty requires us to acknowledge what we are addressing and what we are ignoring. Robin Mohr
Features

What Unites Us

If we want a world without war, we must first accept our own Quaker family. Gretchen Castle
Features

The Quaker Family

Do Friends survive on the world stage because of our wide theological diversity. Elaine Green
Features

Quaker Indian Boarding Schools

Facing our history and ourselves. Paula Palmer
Features

Reaching Out and Across

The shock of 9/11 inspired a friendship program between a Friends school and Islamic school that endures. Jane Fremon
Features

A Place of Stillness in Iran

A Friend finds that inward place of quiet communion while traveling through Iran. Karie Firoozmand
Features

A Ministry of Presence

A crisis of policy leads Baltimore Friends toward reviving intervisitation and a "ministry of presence." Joan Dyer Liversidge
Features

Why Quakers Stopped Voting

Friends have long wrestled with the moral implications of voting. Paul Buckley
Poetry

Heart Like a Mountain

FJ Poetry: "My grandmother had a heart like a mountain." Carol Wills
Poetry

Retirement Community

FJ Poetry: "The bridge over waning years is crease with toil" Sunshine F. Branner

News, October 2016

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