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Bread for the Wilderness

Quakers are fond of the phrase “the still small voice” to describe revelatory experiences. William Penn wrote, “Remember, it is…

Edward A. Dougherty

Discovering Fellowship among African American Friends

In 1992, shortly after I joined Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting and officially became a Quaker, it was announced on public…

Elmyra Powell

A Perspective on the Peace Testimony

When I applied for membership in the Religious Society of Friends ten years ago, it was easy to tell my…

John Andrew Gallery

Spiritual Practices for the Pandemic

An offering of ways to stay grounded during anxious times.

Mathilda Navias

Are We Really Christian?

Do we focus on the religiosity or the spirituality of our Quakerism?

Margaret Namubuya Amudavi

Be Thou Perfect

Perfection is not a static state of self-satisfaction. It not only permits growth, it requires growth. Did not Christ grow…

Kirsten Backstrom

Forum, August 2017

Letters from our readers.

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Peace Works: A Century of Action

AFSC's website Peace Works: Century of Action was created to gather and share stories from the past and present. Here is a small sampling of the more than 200 stories that have been contributed to date.

Tony Heriza

Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 396 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. If we want Jesus’s ethical teachings all…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

Staff