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Student Voices Project

Student Voices: Visual Arts

Draw or create a visual piece in response to peace, conflict, justice, or all three. Josie Carabello, Joyce Okoye, Leyla Urushanova, Jerica Xu

Seekers and Shooters: A Quaker Photojournalist Reflects on Witnessing

By the time I graduated from college, I had burned out as an activist. I’d spent years telling people, stridently,…

Quakers and Yunus Emre

There have been times in my life when I’ve been given the pleasure of discovering a writer or a poet…

Reclaiming Visual Ministry

At one time all art was Spirit-led. The Greek theatre, shamanic ritual objects, liturgical music, icons, and Giotto’s frescos all…

Mushrooms and Poems

I don’t know if it was because the season had been unusually wet, or if it was just the time…

Filming the Life of Gobi Women

Leading, 1997 As I sit in meditation, I see single women lliving a nomadic life—women using wool from their sheep…

Gathering Light

Today you are something similar to a beachcomber. You are a "lightcomber." So began the instructions for Monday’s Game of…

Quaker Peace Tree

A living witness that we pray will outlive the occasion of war. Planted by Friends General Conference Gathering of Friends…

Threading Saffron Peace through the Gates

A silent peace walk led by saffron-robed Buddhist monks and interreligious leaders was to pass through Christo’s and Jeanne Claude’s…

Advice to a Young Artist in America

You ask me: "What is the fine artist to do in America today? Where is he to find his position?…

Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller

In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…

Carved in Stone

When Karin Sprague’s father-in-law died suddenly in 1996 she knew what she would do with the rest of her life.…
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