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On Being a Quaker Filmmaker

Creativity is love is joy is God. In any human’s life, there are myriad opportunities for us to experience bounteous, joyous, creative moments.

Martin Krafft

Student Voices: Story Time

Has there been a time when you were involved in a conflict and there was a peaceful resolution?

Amelia LaMotte, Rachel Briden, Claudia Labson

What I Learned from Rachel Hicks

One Friday morning during a Pendle Hill prayer class, Chris Ravndal introduced us to a prayer form he called "Creating…

Sr. Rachel West

Sidewalk Worship

For Quakers, 2003 was a year of protest and political activism. Understandably, the vast majority of it focused on events…

John Helding

Asking for Help: Anne Lamott’s Help, Thanks, Wow

This is the first installment of our February book club discussion of Anne Lamott’s, Help, Thanks, Wow. Even if you…

Jana Llewellyn

Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow

Even though many Quakers use the phrase, “hold in the light,” there is something to be said for the moments when we utter—perhaps on purpose or by accident—a word or phrase that helps us find a deepening, an opening, the ability to go on.

Jana Llewellyn

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By Anne Lamott. Riverhead Books, 2017. 176 pages. $20/hardcover; $22/paperback; $10.99/eBook. “I’m not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Thanks and Wow: Two Prayers from Anne Lamott’s Latest

This post continues our online book discussion of Anne Lamott’s Help, Thanks, Wow, the Friends Journal selection for February. Chapter…

Jana Llewellyn

Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

By Anne Lamott. Riverhead Books, 2014. 287 pages. $22.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Sitting down to read one of Anne Lamott’s books is…

Reviewed by Ellen Michaud

Milestones December 2013

Benfey—Rachel Elizabeth Thomas Benfey, 86, peacefully, on September 22, 2013, at Friends Homes at Guilford in Greensboro, N.C. Rachel was…

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