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Reading Minutes Aloud

A characteristic practice at meetings for business of Friends General Conference’s Central Committee is reading the minutes out loud to…

Judy Purvis

News, September 2016

News from Friends at the FGC Gathering, British Quakers in business, and the Friends Committee on Scouting.

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Dawn Mogren

Mogren—Dawn Mogren, 86, on May 13, 2017, in York, Pa. Dawn was born on May 16, 1930, in Chicago, Ill.,…

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Elizabeth Gurney Fry reading to prisoners in Newgate Prison, London, in 1816. Painted by Jerry Barrett, circa 1860s. John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford in England. Image © commons.wikimedia.org.

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the…

Ken Southwood