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Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword

The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…

Paul Buckley

The Christiana Resistance

In the early morning hours of September 11, 1851—ten years before the Civil War and exactly 150 years to the…

Brenda Walker Beadenkopf

Student Voices Project

Student Voices Project 2017 Participants

A full list of students who submitted this year.

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December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

By Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Jez Tuya. Albert Whitman & Company, 2016. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $6.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8.…

Reviewed by James Foritano

Mary Dyer: Courageous Witness and My Foremother

"It’s not fair! My name is Mary Dyer and I’m younger than that girl! I should have been the one…

Mary Dyer Hubbard

The Solace of History: Reflections on Quakers and the Environment

Sometimes I feel painfully out-of-step with the world around me. Perhaps I’d have fit in better in some other era,…

Ellen M. Ross

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Neighbors or Tenants?

How George Fox, William Penn, and Benjamin Franklin Approached North America’s Indigenous Tribes.

Francis G. Hutchins

Looking at the Stars: Two Quaker Women Astronomers

Each summer when I was a little girl, my grand-mother’s cousin, Marjorie Williams, and her father would visit our family.…

Marjorie Pickett Xavier

Friends Journal 1958 coverage of the Golden Rule

In 1958, Friends Journal was a weekly publication and published frequent updates about the status of the Golden Rule.

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Flawed Quaker Heroes

Questioning the Narrative of William Penn

Kathleen Bell