Quakers and Capitalism

Season 6, Episode 3

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Forum October 2016

Letters from readers.

We Think We’re Separate

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

What Unites Us

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

The Quaker Family

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

Quaker Indian Boarding Schools

Facing our history and ourselves.

Reaching Out and Across

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

A Place of Stillness in Iran

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

A Ministry of Presence

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

Why Quakers Stopped Voting

Friends have long wrestled with the moral implications of voting.

Heart Like a Mountain

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

Retirement Community

FJ Poetry: "The bridge over waning years is crease with toil"

News, October 2016

News from Friends.

Roland Deeds Kreager

Kreager – Roland Deeds Kreager , 65, mnamo Mei 28, 2016, nyumbani huko Richmond, Ind., Nikiwa nimezungukwa na upendo wa…

Quaker Works October 2016

A semiannual feature highlighting the recent works of Quaker organizations.

Author Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs reads “Climate Change Can’t Wait for Quaker Time”

FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS FJ Podcast: I don’t want to talk about climate change, and you…

Author George Lakey reads “Equality among Today’s Vikings”

FJ Podcast: When I was a young adult getting to know Friends, one of the testimonies that most surprised and intrigued me was equality. My home church had been comfortable with hierarchy. The Quakers I met dressed simply and told me stories about early Friends who’d been jailed for not showing sufficient respect to “their betters.”

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