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Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

[…] need to distinguish between their meeting library and a meeting history room. Depending upon the meeting, each might be useful […]

Gwen Gosney Erickson

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Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem

[…] I was also stepping into more than 400 years of history, standing in the footsteps of people who had been […]

Margaret Fraser

Viewpoint: Toward a Better Understanding

[…] take a few moments to understand the context of Arab history and the deep well of feeling that jihadist leaders […]

Gretchen Bell

Milestones, January 2016

[…] Media (Pa.) Meetings, and an avid researcher of local Quaker history. She served on many Quaker committees and boards of […]

Staff

Books June/July 2014

[…] of this book, which suggests a narrow focus on the history of a single building, Philadelphia’s Arch Street Meeting House: […]

Staff

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The Golden Rule Shall Sail Again

Recovering a piece of nonviolent Quaker history.

Arnold (Skip) Oliver

I (Hope I) See Dead People

[…] more attached to it; some are here because of the history; others couldn’t care less. Some struggle to move forward […]

C. Wess Daniels

U.S. Conscientious Objectors in World War II

World War II was a very important period in the history of U.S. conscientious objectors. When the draft was activated, […]

John Mascari

A Perspective on the Peace Testimony

[…] at its 2002 annual retreat. What I know of the history of Christianity is fragmentary, picked up along the way […]

John Andrew Gallery

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Vegetarianism in Quaker History

[…] Marcus Rediker. Lay was one of the first people in history to call for the total abolition of slavery. Lay’s […]

John Sniegocki