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Friends Face a Pandemic/Thin Spaces


Features
A Quaker Retirement Community Faces the Pandemic by Nancy Thomas

Worshiping Online with Friends by Katie Breslin

Communing Together Virtually by Greg Woods


Student Voices

Seventh Annual Student Voices Project


Thin Spaces Features

God in the ATM by Kat Griffith

Two Meditations on the Intrusion of the Divine into My Daily Life by John Andrew Gallery

A Parallel Universe by Jennifer Kavanagh

Channeling Agape for Those on Their Final Journey by Diane D’Angelo

Grounded in God by Michael Wajda


Poetry
(Two Poems for Saint Thérèse of Lisieux) by Sarah Law

So It Goes by Mary Timberlake


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May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope

Story by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, poems by Hope Anita Smith, with illustrations by Lea Lyon. Henry Holt and Co., 2019. 160…

Reviewed by Reviewed by David Austin

May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel

By Carl Safina. Roaring Brook Press, 2019. 176 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Sandy Moon Farley

Online Features

Quaker Language in a Pandemic

Why use terms of war to describe our response to COVID-19? Philip Harnden

James Mark Fowler

Fowler—James Mark Fowler, 89, on May 8, 2019, in Rowayton, Conn. Jim was born on April 9, 1930, in Albany,… Staff

Mary Allness Glover

Glover—Mary Allness Glover, 97, on October 28, 2019, in Kāne’ohe, Hawaii. Kit, as her friends called her, was born on… Staff

Philip Howell Jones

Jones—Philip Howell Jones, 74, on September 8, 2019, in Wyndmoor, Pa., of prion disease. Phil was born on August 5,… Staff

Elizabeth Jackson Leighton Lamborn

Lamborn—Elizabeth Jackson Leighton Lamborn, 81, on May 27, 2019, at home in Cumru Township, Berks County, Pa. Betty was born… Staff

Kathryn Loretta Wolfe Roether

Roether—Kathryn Loretta Wolfe Roether, 91, on October 28, 2019, at home in Williams, Ore. Kathryn was born on May 12,… Staff

Richard M. Segel

Segel—Richard M. Segel, 78, on October 10, 2019, at home in Louisville, Colo. Richard was born on November 15, 1940,… Staff
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2020

It can be hard to find joy in a time of great uncertainty. Mosi Harrington shares the power of lightheartedness… Staff

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The Gospel in the Anthropocene: Letters from a Quaker Naturalist

The Gospel in the Anthropocene: Letters from a Quaker Naturalist

October 1 2026

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