The Comfort of Horror

An interview with American author Chuck Wendig

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Forum, February 2023

Letters from our readers.

Planting the Seeds of Peace

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago, I have read numerous articles by Friends examining whether the peace testimony remains relevant in our times.

Love Is the Way to Peace

“Love Thy Neighbor. (No Exceptions.)”

QuakerSpeak, February 2023

Examining the Quaker Peace Testimony.

Friends Ask Quaker Oats to Change Its Name

Citing concerns about cultural appropriation, 28 Friends and allies have signed an epistle to Quaker Oats

Berks County immigrant detention center closing, nearly all detainees released

On November 30, 2022, Berks County, Pa. officials announced that the ICE agency will end its contract with the county.

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Our Top Five Articles for 2022

Friends Journal readers have been reconsidering our predecessors and Quakers' role in worldly affairs.

Reparations and the Sense of the Meeting

Introduction to our January issue.

The Road We Walked

A Philadelphia Quaker meeting’s journey to reparations.

Reparations and Transgenerational Healing

A White Quaker’s Path

Beyond Abolition

Elias Hicks’s five points of true restorative racial justice.

Our Quaker Ancestors Owned Slaves

A search through one family’s genealogy.

When You Know Better, You Do Better

Wrestling with America’s racist past.

Confronting the Legacy of Quaker Slavery

Inside the 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project.

Hog Maw Epiphanies

“Mama and Daddy were farmers in Tennessee,” my friend shared…

How Friends Can Make Reparations for Quaker-Run Indigenous Boarding Schools

Friends across the country are reckoning with historic Quaker involvement in Native American boarding schools.

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