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A Quaker Painter's Challenge

Most everyone has a private challenge. Some are difficult obstacles to overcome, like mountain climbing. Others involve winning races, building…

German Quakers and the Trial of George Grosz

It was 1930, and in Germany the Weimar Republic was visibly in a state of imminent collapse as an ever-intensifying…

Knitting in Gratitude

My recent prayers have been colorful and, frankly, rather woolly. They are relatively quiet, except for the clickety clack of…

My Father's Peace

I am a member of the baby-boom generation, born after the GIs and G-gals came home from the Second World…

True Celebrity

The best thing that happened to me at South Central Yearly Meeting (of which I am not a member) was…

Reconciling the Irreconcilable

I am deeply grateful to the staff of Friends Journal for doing another arts issue—the first since 1979—and for involving…

Art as Soul's Sanctuary: The Making of a Leading

The stuff of the world is there to be made into images that become for us tabernacles of spirituality and…

An Interview with Chuck Fager

Chuck Fager is clerk of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA). He has recently been appointed director of…

Quakers' and Everyones' Need for the Arts

It is quite clear that Quakers need the fine arts. Efforts to make up for the slights that the arts…

Quakers on the Arts, 1658-1995

All ye poets, jesters, rhymers, makers of verses and ballads, who bend your wits to please novelties, light minds, who…

Reflections on the Life and Art of Asa Watkins

Asa Watkins died in June 2001 at age 84. After reflecting for some time on the news of his passing,…

Music and the Spirit of Creativity

My musical saga began at the age of ten. I had heard and was moved by music all my life,…
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