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August 2023
August 2023
Among Friends
To Be Seen and Loved
Introduction to our August issue.
Gabriel Ehri
Features
Hitchhiking as a Spiritual Discipline
An open road readies a seeker for saying yes to God.
Kat Griffith
Features
She Told Me Save the Flower
An incarcerated Quaker artist’s feminist awakening.
Judy Meikle
Features
Allowable Diversions
A Friend explores the morality of hunting.
Timothy Tarkelly
Features
Who Gets to Be Safe?
Struggling to find unity on gun-free zones in a Texas meeting.
Katharine Jager
Features
Benjamin Lay’s Medicine
Healing our communities from White supremacy and slavery.
Lucy Duncan and Rob Peagler
Online Features
SPICES Testimonies and the Biblical Roots of Quakerism: Pointing to the Moon
SPICES testimonies and the biblical roots of Quakerism.
Gene Hillman
Poetry
Morning Prayer
While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark
Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry
Hoeing an Apple Tree
To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future
Cynthia Gallaher
Glaciers (Removed)
“Glaciers” by John Kucera has been removed from the August 2023 online edition due to plagiarism. The actual author of…
Forum
Forum, August 2023
Letters from our readers.
Staff
Service
I Came to Serve
Quakers and Alternatives to Violence in Bolivia.
Magaly Quispe Yujra, with editorial support and translation from Barbara Flynn
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