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What Makes a Leader? (Friends Journal Book Club)

We’re reading Susan Cain’s book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, for the Friends Journal…

Jana Llewellyn

Recognizing that of God in each other

I was distressed by Marty Grundy’s review of Godless for God’s Sake (FJ Nov. 2006). I hear echoes of 1827…

Susan Furry

Exploring What It Means to Be Quiet

(A Friends Journal Book Club Installment) Do you like quiet? If so, you’re not alone. You may have thought you…

Jana Llewellyn

Nozuko's Story

Fall 1999, Singisi, South Africa It’s an ordinary autumn day. The chilling wind announces the impending arrival of winter, snapping…

Susan Winters Cook

Counting Our Blessings

Here in the U.S., we celebrate Thanksgiving in November. It’s a four-day weekend that sees one of the highest travel…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Working for Peace

Perhaps one of the most difficult dilemmas presented by our Quaker testimonies is the tension between seeking to address that…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Beginning Where We Are

Years ago my husband, Adam, was the national organizer for the Shakertown Pledge. Drafted during the 1970s by a group…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

It Must Have Been

Pilgrimage It must have been those long walks down country lanes, / daisies and black-eyed Susans separating dirt path from farmland, / your small hand reaching up and held in your mother’s loving grip

Charles Thomas

Common Threads

In an online sermon Honoring our Theological Diversity, Unitarian Universalist minister Susan Manker-Seale says, "Long, long ago, high on a…

Paul Ricketts

The Blossom of a Life Well Lived

We began talking about the possibility of doing a special issue on aging and life’s end a couple of years…

Susan Corson-Finnerty