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Meeting for Worship for Healing

A largely forgotten Quaker practice brings healing and wholeness once more.

Richard K. Lee and Sarah M. Lloyd

Why Have a Peace and Social Concerns Committee?

Life in the Meeting

Eileen Flanagan

Religious Wounding: What Can Our Meetings’ Elders Do?

How can we find ways to prevent wounded Friends from wounding other Friends?

Mariellen Gilpin

The Second Ohio Separation

Author’s note: Throughout this article, the terms "Gurneyite" and "Wilburite" will be used to refer to two groups of Friends,…

Paul Buckley

Learning from Sarah Douglass

In 1833, Sarah Mapps Douglass, an African American educator, moved from her home in Philadelphia to New York City to…

Margaret Hope Bacon

A Movement of Conscience in New York Yearly Meeting

Conscience is an inward knowledge of right and wrong, along with a compulsion to do what is right. It requires…

Karen Reixach

The Presiding Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Responds

As the presiding clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, I am writing to clarify the yearly meeting’s role and actions related…

Jada S. Jackson

Milestones October 2013

Marriages: Sarah Boss and Jeremy John Shea. Births: Riva Roy-Ehri, Deaths: Dorothy Ann Dickenson Corbit, Weaver Rose Habl, Elizabeth H. Moger, Eleanor Bent Plant, Mary Elizabeth Gaunt Rhoads, Majid Tehranian.

Staff

New York Yearly Meeting adopts yearly meeting membership

  ew York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) approved “at large membership” (membership through the yearly meeting instead of through a local…

Staff

Young Friends Need More Substance

What I have appreciated most about Friends is the way they have welcomed me into their Religious Society, both in…

Zachary Hoyt