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Friends Neighborhood Guild: A Quaker Presence in Philadelphia

The Beginnings In 1879, as an expression of concern for their new immigrant neighbors, Friends in the Northern Liberties section…

Middle School Friends Workcamp

Last September, my 13-year-old daughter and I participated in the Middle School Friends Workcamp, run by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and…

Quakerism for One

"Mariah, come to the office! You have a letter!" My boss was as shocked and excited as I was. It…

Counter-Recruitment in Cookeville, Tennessee

Hector, isn’t it a Quaker thing to be concerned with the influence of the military on our children?" With such…

''Visitation and Hospitality among Friends

After I returned home from Continuing Committee of Illinois Yearly Meeting in the winter months of early 1999, my mind…
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Christmas Light

Photo by kwasny222 Last year I was not in the mood for the Friends’ holiday party, though it is usually… Eleanor Wright

The 2005 Friends General Conference Gathering

There were over 1,500 Friends, arriving in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the Virginia Tech campus on July 2, in blazing heat.…

The Gathering in Appreciation

This Gathering was an opportunity to be gathering in the spirit with multiple witnesses and a spectrum of Friends, beliefs,…

Musings on Golf Carts

Gathering Friends have a passion for golf carts, both as passengers and as drivers. Those who partake of this form…

Building the Beloved Community

Atlanta Friends Meeting began as such a diverse group of people that one of the first attenders commented, "It seemed…

Hospitality in the Manner of Friends

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one…

Meeting for Business for Community

In psychotherapy there is a technique we call "paradoxical intervention." It’s what we do when we tell a two-year-old who…
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