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Sheep Among Wolves

[…] and trust are distributed equally without regard for a person’s history, experience, or wisdom.  Judy*, a Friend and longtime social […]

Jade Rockwell

Rethinking William Penn

[…] William Penn is the most widely recognized Quaker in U.S. history, in no small part due to his settling the […]

Trudy Bayer

What Makes a Quaker Hero?

[…] punch to an enemy’s jaw didn’t change the course of history then. No, a trickle of incessant, unwavering protest built […]

Stuart E.W. Smith

Return to Wounded Knee

[…] a few dusty hardback books, and a scrapbook about the history of AIM. Behind the building were two small hillocks […]

Jeff Rasley

Quakerism: The Basics

[…] written can be used to open the beliefs, practices, and history of Friends to those who are new to our […]

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

[…] year. It is an object lesson in what a fine history should be: deeply researched on a seemingly small but […]

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Paul Siddall Seaver

[…] earned graduate degrees at Harvard University in early modern English history, focusing on religion and radicalism and on the growth […]

Staff

Quaker Works April 2021

[…] writing, and community building; and East African Friends in oral history collection. Recent Conversation Circles (free, online video conferences) have […]

Quaker Works

A Quaker Call to Abolition and Creation

[…] Myths exist to veil the complexity and contradictions of our history, to obfuscate the differences between who we think we […]

Lucy Duncan

Larry Scott Butler

[…] from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., with a major in history. He was a founder of a liberal discussion group […]