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The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships

We Quakers have been wrestling with the issue of same-sex relationships for some time, at least since Alastair Heron and…

Catherine Griffith

Homosexuality: A Plea to Read the Bible Together

Homosexuality is the issue that most threatens to create new schisms in the world of Quakers. Yet it could be the controversy that will draw us all more closely together.

Douglas C. Bennett

A Truly Embodied Spirituality

The last in a three-part series on Quakerism, food, and the body.

Madeline Schaefer

Living in the Life and Power

I have always been drawn by the words of George Fox, recorded in his Journal, refusing the commissioners’ request of…

PattyLevering

Leading a “Yes, We Can!? Workshop in Kenya

In 2009, I traveled as a representative of Friends General Conference to the Young Quakers Christian Association (Africa) Triennial, which…

EmilyStewart

The Law, Grace, and Homosexuality

There are two radically different ways of reading the Bible; we can approach it under the Law or under Grace.…

Edward Elder

Friends as Healers

Twenty Friends sit comfortably in a circle in the warming sunshine of Powell House retreat center. While some Friends gaze…

Bobbi and Curtis Bailin Buffy

We Need a YAF

We have a disconnect between faith and practice.

Mackenzie Morgan

Kicked by God: A Journey into Public Schoolteaching

The late Korean Quaker Ham Sok Han once said that on his life journey he was "kicked by God" onto…

KittyTaylorMizuno

News, December 2017

News of Friends: What Canst Thou Say? Colloquium; Quaker leaders part of church delegation to the Middle East; appointment at Ramallah Friends School.

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