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Hunkering Down, Growing Down

Reader, this has not been a typical year. As our days grow shorter and our nights colder here in the… Gabriel Ehri

Other Voices, Other Zooms

Adapting in-person presentation for Friends online. Peterson Toscano

Full Circles and Kindred Spirits

The creation of a solstice choral work with poetic roots in Friends Journal. Shawn Kirchner

765 Small Flags

A Friends community finds a creative way to respond to gun violence. Allen’s Neck Peace and Social Concerns Committee

When to Speak

How can we know when it’s time to disrupt a narrative? Mary Ann Petersen

East of Denver

An emerging spirituality of aging. Joe McHugh

Witnessing in Solidarity with the First Americans

Lifting Native voices up into our political conversation. Kerri Colfer

Breathing Safely

We cannot turn away from racial and environmental injustices. Kathy Barnhart

The Case for a Testimony of Empowerment

Liberating and supporting one another. Robert Henry

Invitation and Reply

(for Ted Herman) Come along with me,His eyes on mine invite. I’m sorry; I don’t think; I mean,those shoes you… Nancy L. Bieber

Here Am I, Lord, Send Me

for my grandmother, Miriam Lindsey Levering (1913-1991) Blue light a nimbus from the TV, she’s listeningto the darkness delivering news… Alexander Levering

Christmas Program

Bales of real hayclump aroundthe false manger.The choir files in,an unheavenly host,to predestined slotson stage.I spot David,my almost angelic son;our… Nancy Thomas

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