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Friends Testimony on Gambling

Everybody these days receives and discards those letters saying "Mr. X, you may already be the winner of half a million dollars."

Norma Jacob

Letting Our Money Speak

Quaker testimonies in an economy of greed.

J. E. McNeil

Forum: August 2013

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Some Musings on Pacifism

The excellent contributions on the events of September 11 in the December Friends Journal prompt these musings on "pacifism," a…

Edward F. Snyder

Quaker Women in Prison Reform

While many Quakers are familiar with the pioneering work of Elizabeth Fry in Newgate Prison, London, relatively few are aware…

Margaret Hope Bacon

To Friends Journal Readers: A Response

I am grateful to have been able to follow the debate over my remarks that were printed in Friends Journal…

Scott Simon

John Dickinson (1732–1808): Quaker Statesman?

John Dickinson, statesman, author. In influential writings 1765-74, argued against British policies. Later, as a member of Continental Congress, 1774-76,…

Alice M. Hoffman

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Unresolved: A Present Danger

On August 19, 2003, the Washington Post carried a front-page story and picture headlined “Enola Gay, Waiting in the Wings…

Marjorie A. Smith

Godless for God's Sake

Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism, by 27 Quaker nontheists Edited by David Boulton. Dales Historical Monographs, 2006. 146 pages. $18.50/softcover. This…

Martha Paxson Grundy

Young People’s Empowerment Convergence

In late June 2007, the first Young People’s Empowerment Convergence (YPEC) was held on Snipes Farm in Morrisville, Pa. The…

Carl Sigmond