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A Journey toward Eliminating Racism in the Religious Society of Friends

Participants in the 2014 FGC Pre-Gathering Retreat for Friends of Color and their families. The author (second from right) with […]

Vanessa Julye

News, September 2016

News from Friends at the FGC Gathering, British Quakers in business, and the Friends Committee on Scouting.

Staff

A Perspective on the Quaker Sweat Lodge

[…] ("Finding a Way Forward," FJ Nov. 2006). For the record, FGC continues to be led (along with many meetings and […]

Bruce Birchard

Features

Advancing Quaker Spirituality in the Twenty-first Century

Preparing for the future of the 100-year-old FGC Gathering.

Barry Crossno

Features

An Interview with the Co-clerks of Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force

[…] us through what happened at the 2016 Friends General Conference (FGC) Gathering in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and the events that […]

Sharon Lane-Getaz, Justin Connor, and Martin Kelley

Finding a Way Forward

[…] her meeting in Chicago, and she grew up in the FGC Gathering—until the QSL’s cancellation drove her away. The negative […]

Chuck Fager

FGC's Couple Enrichment Program

[…] our community have served them well over the years. The FGC Couple Enrichment Program began over 40 years ago with […]

Bradley Sheeks

Meeting at the Center

[…] Friends in North America. When I became General Secretary of FGC in 1992, I was not very familiar with either […]

Bruce Birchard

News

Pacific Yearly Meeting joins Friends General Conference

[…] October, Pacific Yearly Meeting’s request to join Friends General Conference (FGC) was accepted by the FGC Executive Committee. “We are […]

Staff

Singing among FGC Friends

[…] Quaker theology or attitudes towards Jesus. More recently, singing among FGC Friends has flourished in diverse forms. Singing was central […]

Pater Blood-Patterson