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2023

Online Features

Living Your Call

A Vocational Discernment Project for Young Adult Friends. Greg Woods and Jennifer Newman
Online Features

Career Guidance for Friends in Their Twenties

Friends determine their next steps on life’s path based on leadings of the Spirit as well as communal and personal… Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Name Change

For nearly twenty years I’ve been a member / of the “Men’s Spiritual Nurture Group” Howard Nelson
Poetry

Tuning Up

A staccato jackhammer, / rattle of a loose windowpane, / a frisking wail of wind. Richard Schiffman
Poetry

Wednesday Evenings

A gaggle of barefoot pilgrims / hungry to hush minds’ chatter / tiptoe upstairs, settle Karen Luke Jackson
Forum

Forum, September 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Life in the Meeting

Messages from Central Philadelphia Meeting’s Experiment in Sharing about Quaker Worship

The following messages were written by members of the Worship and Ministry Committee at Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Staff
Life in the Meeting

An Experiment in Sharing about Quaker Worship

This is a story about how the members of the Worship and Ministry Committee of Central Philadelphia Meeting experimented with… Bruce Birchard
Quaker Book Reviews

The Quaker World

Edited by C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant. Routledge, 2022. 542 pages. $250/hardcover; $58.99/paperback or eBook. The Quaker World is…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

Online Features

Welcomed as We Are

Encounters with Young Friends in Belize Nikki Holland
Quaker Book Reviews

Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism

By Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather. The University of Arizona Press, 2022. 224 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback.…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

Quaker Book Reviews

Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

By Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Atria Books, 2023. 240 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Conversations about identity are hard. We may…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

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The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

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November 1 2025

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