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Poetry

A Couplet

FJ Poetry: "My grandfather is at the tea-table picking a sugar cube for his tea..." Saima Afreen

Milestones May 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.

Milestones October 2014

Births, marriages, and deaths.

The Life of Japanese Quaker Inazo Nitobe

At Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, numerous epistles are read from other yearly meetings throughout the world. Likewise Philadelphia sends its annual…

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…

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…

The Fruit of Her Hands

My mother had intended to get rid of the old pillows. Taking them out her back door one summer day,…

FCNL’S 50th Jubilee: A Look Back

s I look back over FCNL’s first 50 years, the past, the present, and the future merge, separate, and reconnect.…