How Do You Feel the Light Inside You?

The ministry of religious education.

Melinda Wenner Bradley

What Bridges Are Made Of

A Friend wonders if it's time to accept our differences.

Homosexuality: A Plea to Read the Bible Together

Homosexuality is the issue that most threatens to create new schisms in the world of Quakers. Yet it could be the controversy that will draw us all more closely together.

Quakers are Way Cooler Than You Think

There are many ways to equip and engage young adult Friend members and attenders.

Crossing the Monkey Bridge Together

One of my summer camp highlights as a child was to help build the Monkey Bridge every year and then…

Belonging: Quakers, Membership, and the Need to be Known

hat role does monthly meeting membership play in our understanding of faith and belonging?  Can someone be a Quaker without…

Requesting Hospitality for Isolated Friends

Is Quakerism a community limited by geographical constraint, or is it a spiritual understanding that can be shared and lived…

Serving Community Peacekeepers

A Friend finds a path to peacemaking by becoming a police chaplain.

Bayard Rustin at Swarthmore College

Bayard Rustin’s spiritual depth has been widely overlooked and deserves to be brought back to our attention.

Martha Ellicott Tyson

A profile of the Baltimore Quaker elder and minister (1795-1873)

Modern Germany and the Lessons of WWII

I recently spent a fascinating two weeks as part of the Transatlantic Outreach Program’s (TOP) study tour of Germany. Traveling…

April Forum 2012

Fetishization of biblical passages I was glad to see David Zarembka’s letter about African Friends in your February issue. I…

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more…

May Forum 2012

Lucretia, I wish I had known you! For twenty years I’ve helped tend the grave of Quaker abolitionist and women’s…

Walking From Shadows Into Light

  “. . . for we walk by faith not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) As a retired person, walking has…

April News 2012

FWCC General Secretary nomination Gretchen Castle of Philadelphia nominated to serve as FWCC General Secretary. The Central Executive Committee of Friends…

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the…

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