Quaker Works Archives

Quaker Works October 2019

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.

Staff

The Mighty Salem Oak

Remembering a tree that has seen much Lenape and Quaker history over its 600-year lifespan.

Jessica Waddington, edited by Mary Julia Street

Authentic Friends

Our introduction to the September Issue.

Martin Kelley

Spiritual Simplicity

There’s more to simplicity than tidying up our physical spaces.

Andrew Huff

My Year of Living Eschatologically

Awareness of end times comes to a Friend diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Muriel Edgerton

Selling Out to Niceness

The Religious Society of Friends’ witness is hidden when we elevate niceness over kindness.

Ann Jerome

A Quaker School’s Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse

Transparency and integrity are put to the test when a decades-old scandal is revealed.

Erik Hanson

Slavery in the Quaker World

Christian slavery and White supremacy.

Katharine Gerbner

Sabbath

FJ Poetry: "Spent the day preparing the way…"

Jessie Brown

Ancestry

FJ Poetry: "Three sisters sitting outside…"

Anna Murphey

Forum, September 2019

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Life in the Meeting

Community Dinner at Brooklyn’s Quaker Diner

Three decades of monthly dinners have done more than just feed the hungry.

Carl Blumenthal

News, September 2019

News of Friends.

Staff

At That Time

FJ Poetry: "We had a swing on the porch / that would catch the breeze…"

James Littwin

Stimulating the Core of Quakerism

Our introduction to the August Issue on "QuakerSpeak at Five"

Gabriel Ehri

Stripping Down Quakerism for the Internet

An origin story for QuakerSpeak.

Max L. Carter

Load More

Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…
Stephen on Lynette Love: Education and Empowerment in Post-Civil War America

What a powerful feature on Lynette Love! Your conversation in the Friends Journal shines a necessary…
Eve Gutwirtth on A People Who Dwell in the Living Stream

Silence is a sublime state that we westeners find difficult to achieve but I did a…

QuakerSpeak

The Secret to Quaker Prayer: Holding in the Light

Eye-Opening Lessons from Living In a Quaker Intentional Community

How to Bridge the Political Divide Through Faith

How to Nurture the Soul

Transforming the SPIRIT: Liberation Theology and the Inner Light

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