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Let Your Life Speak
A crossword puzzle for Friends of all ages to enjoy!
Laura Taylor Kinnel, who was once a young Friend, is a member of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Kids
The Invisible Damage of Competition
Welcoming a new narrative in which we all are gifted.
Mary Jo Klingel has been a Friend for about 20 years and attends Charlotte (N.C.) Meeting. She is the new clerk of Quaker Earthcare Witness. She is sustained by her leading to dig deeper, understand more clearly, and be led by the Light.
Posted in: Features, Friendly Competition?
Lorettaās Gift
By Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Alea Marley. Little Bee Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4 and [ā¦]
Anne Nydam is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, where she teaches First-day school. A former middle school art teacher, she now stays home with her own children, while working as an author of childrenās books and an artist.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Occasions for Plain Dress
Are there times we might let our clothes speak?
Gracia Fay Ellwood lives in Ojai, Calif.
Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse, Viewpoint
El Paso Quakers on the Border Today
How Friends along the Mexican border are responding to needs.
Ann Birch is currently clerk of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting. She is a librarian who settled in on the border in the 1960s.
Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse, Witness
Provide Sanctuary
It is time for people of conscience to embrace the brothers and sisters among us.
Michael Resman lives inĀ Rochester, Minn.
Posted in: Quakers and Christianity, Viewpoint
The Imaginary Box
I was different in third grade. Some of my classmates thought antagonizing me was cool; they used it as a [ā¦]
Jules Needleman, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Being Vegetarian is a Climate Issue
A Friendās bumpy path toward a lifestyle thatās lighter on the Earth.
Lynn Fitz-Hugh is a climate activist, parent, psychotherapist, and vegetarian. She belongs to Eastside Meeting in Bellevue, Wash.
Posted in: Quaker Lifestyles
Falling Through the Cracks: The Children of Calais
Across the Channel from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, approximately 10,000 men, women, and children lived in [ā¦]
Kate McNally is a member of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting and works as the Forced Migration Project coordinator for the Quaker Council for European Affairs (qcea.org).
Posted in: Online Features
May 2020: Friends Face a Pandemic / Thin Spaces
Features
A Quaker Retirement Community Faces the Pandemic by Nancy Thomas
Worshiping Online with Friends by Katie Breslin
Communing Together Virtually by Greg Woods
Student Voices
Seventh Annual Student Voices Project
Thin Spaces Features
God in the ATM by Kat Griffith
Two Meditations on the Intrusion of the Divine into My Daily Life by John Andrew Gallery
A Parallel Universe by Jennifer Kavanagh
Channeling Agape for Those on Their Final Journey by Diane DāAngelo
Grounded in God by Michael Wajda
Poetry
(Two Poems for Saint ThĆ©rĆØse of Lisieux) by Sarah Law
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