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Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

A ninth-grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach.

Robert Stephen Dicken

Allen’s Neck Meeting Clambake Celebrates 125 Years

A century's-worth of adaptations in a Quaker meeting's summer celebration inadvertently documents ecosystem change. With podcast, author chat, and additional photos.

Joseph E. Ingoldsby

The Atheist’s Guide to Quaker Process: Spirit-Led Decisions for the Secular

By Selden W. Smith. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 472), 2021. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Friend Selden Smith has written…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

Books, August 2013

A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles By Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrated by Wietske Vriezen. Plum Blossom Books, 2012.…

Staff

Pilgrim in a Barren Land

After midnight, even on an unseasonably mild November evening, the late-working staffers have gone home and the tourists are back…

Laurel Beckett

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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An Iconoclast's View of Quaker Outreach

While I am honored to be giving the Rufus Jones lecture this evening, by choosing to invite me, Haverford College…

Signe Wilkinson

Simple Theatricality

In my first years as a Quaker, my theater life stood in uncomfortable tension side-by-side with my faith.

Stuart E.W. Smith

Forum January 2019

Letters from our readers.

Staff

What Makes a Quaker Hero?

Powering Up the Next Generation

Stuart E.W. Smith