How Do You Feel the Light Inside You?

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Melinda Wenner Bradley

FJ Interview with Eric Moon

Eric Moon is the author of “Categorically Not the Testimonies” in the June/July 2013 issue of Friends Journal. In our…

Categorically Not the Testimonies

Pulling the Quaker testimonies from their boxes.

Among Friends June/July 2013

The Flavor of Quaker Testimonies

Forum June/July 2013

Letters from our readers.

Reclaiming Our Divine Birthright

Is it easier to talk about the testimonies than about God?

Reviving our Testimonies

How do we testify, and to what?

A Simple Life?

A spiritual searcher seeks a simple life.

On Authority, A New Apologia

Can science and morality explain why something is holy?

Africa, Appalachia, and Arrest

The story of a leading.

Working for Peace for 96 Years

The witness of the American Friends Service Committee

The Mandala

Haddonfield Meeting in New Jersey recently hosted a group of seven Buddhist monks visiting from their monastery in the Karnataka state of India.

’Tis the Gift to be Simple

The testimony of simplicity goes deeper than song lyrics in a hymnal. I find simplicity to be the most challenging of the Quaker testimonies.

Richard Nixon’s First Cover-Up

While Nixon occasionally mentioned his Quaker background, the exact nature of his faith remained obscure.

Film Review: Argo

I cannot help but think of ways in which policies decided in Washington shape the lives of people in cities across the Atlantic, people I will neither see nor meet, and I wonder, what side of the story am I missing?

Forum May 2013

"Listening and Speaking from the Heart," by Os Cresson, plus reactions to our issue on sexuality.

Simplicity Quantified

An artist's work highlights the choices in our lives.

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