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Author George Lakey reads “Equality among Today’s Vikings”

FJ Podcast: When I was a young adult getting to know Friends, one of the testimonies that most surprised and intrigued me was equality. My home church had been comfortable with hierarchy. The Quakers I met dressed simply and told me stories about early Friends who’d been jailed for not showing sufficient respect to “their betters.”

George Lakey

Equality among Today’s Vikings

Quaker testimonies don't have to be compromised in politics.

George Lakey

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Martin Kelley

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2018. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook (title available December 2018). In June 1934 Quaker biblical scholar…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Allowing Ourselves to Be Bold

The experience of Earth Quaker Action Team.

George Lakey

Fifty-Second Street

The thermometer read 102 degrees. Two-year-old Christina lay in bed crying, her tan face red with fever as she turned…

George R. Lakey

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Deborah Dodd

''Walking Cheerfully … with a Vision in Our Pockets

Is it just me, or are others running into more cynical, escapist, or despairing people these days? My Christian conservative…

George Lakey

What Are We to Do about Our Leaders?

I’m grateful to my monthly meeting that since the beginning of the ’90s it has supported my ministry of religious…

George Lakey