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Film Review: Argo

I cannot help but think of ways in which policies decided in Washington shape the lives of people in cities across the Atlantic, people I will neither see nor meet, and I wonder, what side of the story am I missing?

Pola Lem

FJ Interview with Al Vernacchio

[…] technology. The downside of it is when young people take their cues about how sex and relationships work from things like […]

Al Vernacchio

A Great People To Be Gathered: The View From Pendle Hill

In the olden days, when I was here, Quakers did not applaud at lectures. Remember those days? I was asked…

Parker J. Palmer

Educating Ned

[…] also finds it hard to communicate and doesn’t understand social cues. He was diagnosed at age two with classical autism, […]

RosemaryGould

Close Encounter in the Parking Lot

Dune-like mounds of plowed snow glistened as I wheeled my cart from the supermarket to my car. For almost a…

DorothyKinsmanBrown

A Snapshot of Friends in the Americas

[…] Gospel to the Aymara people. These indigenous people in the Andes were among the poorest of the poor, in a […]

Margaret Fraser

Friends World Committee for Consultation (Section of the Americas)

[…] Americas, the Quaker community extends from the Arctic to the Andes, spanning a rich diversity of regional cultures, beliefs, and […]

Quaker Works

Surviving Winter

[…] wore layers and layers of shirts and sweaters and an Andes wool hat with a pompom hanging down. Her thin […]

Elizabeth Claggett-Borne

Reflections and a Welcome

[…] 30 Years" (p. 16), and two pieces by Quaker prisoners: Ismael Melendez’s "To Friends: A Call to Duty" (p. 18) […]

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Quaker Works April 2022

[…] Americas, the Quaker community extends from the Arctic to the Andes, spanning a rich diversity of regional cultures, beliefs, and […]

Quaker Works