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The Trouble With “Strangers”

By Gerri Williams on February 1, 2018

Freedom isn’t anyone’s politically correct opinion.

Gerri Williams is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and has served on AFSC Nobel Peace Prize Task Group. The opinions expressed are her own*. Her article “Standing for Miss Rosa” appeared in the August 2006 issue of Friends Journal.

[*Disclaimer added by author's request. - FJ Eds.]

Posted in: Features, February 2018

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Rediscovering Quakerism’s Liberal Religious Roots

By Isaac Barnes May on May 1, 2015

Revisiting our spiritual tradition to find common ground in witness and service.

Isaac May is a graduate student in religious studies at the University of Virginia. He is an alumnus of Earlham College and holds an MA from Harvard Divinity School. Isaac became a member of the Religious Society of Friends at Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.).

Posted in: Features, Friends and Other Faiths: Friends and Other Faiths

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