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Quaker Works October 2019

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.

Staff

Civility Can Be Dangerous

In 1934, AFSC co-founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?

Lucy Duncan

Milestones December 2013

Benfey—Rachel Elizabeth Thomas Benfey, 86, peacefully, on September 22, 2013, at Friends Homes at Guilford in Greensboro, N.C. Rachel was…

Staff

Are We at the Dawn of a New Age of Global Spirituality?

In December 2009, I attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) in Melbourne, Australia. This gathering has taken place…

AnthonyManousos

Friends' Fortitude in Response to the Violence in Kenya

On January 6, my wife, Gladys Kamonya, aand I attended Lumakanda Friends Church. It was exactly one week after hearing…

David Zarembka

To Tell or Not to Tell

“What is this, some kind of parenting thing?" This, the response from my 35-year-old daughter when I informed her that…

Henry Stark

Forum May 2017

Letters from our readers remember Henry Cadbury; a meeting with Joyce Ajlouny, shifting racial labels and accountability, a request for resources on aging, more.

Staff

Milestones, September 2012

Obituaries for Martin Michael Beer, Richard Sternoff Beyer, Elizabeth Koop Buck, Walter Henry Glass, Dale K Miller, and Armin Louis Sanger, Jr.

Staff

Turning Down the Volume on Spiritual Noise

Henry Sessions

Courage Then and Now

As a member of that generation of Friends who used World War II as a springboard for the growth and…

Barbara Grant Nnoka