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When I Was Thirsty

Last year I visited the Sonoran Desert, which straddles the U.S.-Mexican border, for the third time— this time to volunteer…

MichaelPratt

Elizabeth Jackson Leighton Lamborn

Lamborn—Elizabeth Jackson Leighton Lamborn, 81, on May 27, 2019, at home in Cumru Township, Berks County, Pa. Betty was born…

Staff

Quakers in Bolivia

What did I know about Bolivia? Practically nothing, just the few facts I had learned in high school half a…

Newton Garver

A Detroit Public Schoolteacher’s Notebook

I’m talking to Friends after meeting, seeking a word to describe my experiences teaching in Detroit this year, my 17th…

LisaSinnett

Features

Climate Change Can’t Wait for Quaker Time

Balancing patience with urgency in the monthly meeting.

Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs

News

Guilford President replaced by interim

On August 1, Carol A. Moore became interim president of Guilford College, a school founded by Quakers in Greensboro, N.C.…

FJ News Editor

A Gathering Scrapbook

Imagine a well-loved, respected member of your meeting, say, a woman of about 70. Do you have her competent, friendly,…

Kenneth Sutton

The Meaning of Universalism

I remember when I became a Quaker. I was a teenager, and a Quaker couple, Mary Lee and Lee Comer,…

Philip H. Gulley

Ruth Estelle Taber Gates

Gates—Ruth Estelle Taber Gates, 91, on July 23, 2019, peacefully, in East Providence, R.I., a few weeks after joyously celebrating…

Staff

Remembering Elise Boulding: The Legacy of Her Journaling

Elise Boulding died on June 24, 2010, in Needham, Mass., just shy of her 90th birthday. Known for her accomplishments…

Mary Lee Morrison