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Quaker Works April 2016

Recent work by Quaker organizations.

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Ruth Jane Laessle

Laessle—Ruth Jane Laessle, 93, on December 4, 2016, at home in Austin, Tex. Jane was born on September 30, 1923,…

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Learning from John Woolman, as a Christian Quaker

A passage from John Woolman's Journal gives a Friend the language for describing her new sense of empowerment.

Helene Pollock

Vegetarianism in Quaker History

Food ethics has long been an important part of the tradition of Friends.

John Sniegocki

The Quakers, 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Pat Habicht

Habicht—Pat Habicht, 90, on July 10, 2023, utilizing the New Mexico End-of-Life Options Act in Taos, N.M. She was a…

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Moving toward Wholeness: Addressing Race among Friends

George Fox admonished Friends "to know one another in that which is eternal." In building our communities and in providing…

Patricia McBee and Vanessa Julye

Eleanor Cecile Rothe Hammond

Hammond—Eleanor Cecile Rothe Hammond, 94, on April 30, 2016, in Round Rock, Tex. Eleanor was born on January 22, 1922,…

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News, October 2016

News from Friends.

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Forum, October 2021

Life, love, and entropy David Castro’s “All Walls Come Down” (FJ Aug.) does not try to hide from the complexity…

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