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The Light Will Rip You Up

By Caroline Morris on November 1, 2018

Navigating anorexia with Simone Weil

Caroline Morris attended Portland Seminary of George Fox University, where she wrote a thesis on the connection between anorexia and asceticism, and is a current student at Earlham School of Religion.


Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features
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Olivia-Jaekle

Different Opinions, Same Community

By Olivia Jaekle on May 1, 2018

Last year I attended an all‐girls school in Southeastern Pennsylvania. This school’s community consisted of some diversity geographically, but most […]

Olivia Jaekle, Grade 10, Westtown School


Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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Juliet-Ramey-Lariviere

As a human race we must understand and accept that we are connected

By Juliet Ramey-Lariviere on May 1, 2017

Student Voices: “My name is Juliet Ramey‐Lariviere. I am many things: I am a woman, a friend, an ally, a […]


Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
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26 Weekends at Columbia County Jail: Part Two

By Joseph Olejak on October 1, 2015

A Quaker’s principled jailing results in a journal from behind bars. Part two.

Joseph Olejak is an attender at Old Chatham (N.Y.) Meeting. He is a chiropractor by training.


Posted in: Features, October 2015: Faithful Living
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Interview with Nathan Alling Long, Author of “Holy Day”

By Nathan Alling Long on October 30, 2012

This month, we feature a short fiction piece about a couple resolving a disagreement about the meaning of Christmas. Nathan […]

Nathan Alling Long grew up in a log cabin in the Maryland Appalachians, lived on a queer commune in Tennessee, and studied writing in Virginia. His stories and essays have been published in over 50 publications and have appeared on NPR and in several anthologies. He lives in Philadelphia, Pa., and teaches at Richard Stockton College in Galloway, N.J.


Posted in: Departments, Fiction, Interviews, October 2012: Wall Street, Main Street, and Meetinghouse Road
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Understanding The Man Who Quit Money

By Book Club Moderator (Jana Llewellyn) on September 17, 2012

Right around the time I started reading The Man Who Quit Money, I was obsessed with buying shoes. I had […]

Jana Llewellyn is associate editor at Friends Journal.


Posted in: Book Club, Quaker Book Reviews, September 2012
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My spiritual life, with food

By Barbara Birch on March 1, 2012

I am a weighty Friend in the literal sense of weighing a lot but definitely not in the metaphorical sense […]


Posted in: Features
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Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools

By Sarah Sweeney-Denham on July 1, 2004

Quakers believe in truth‐seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences […]

Sarah Sweeney-Denham, a member of Germantown Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., is associate director for programs and publications for Friends Council on Education. This article is adapted from one published in the Fall 2001 issue of Chronicles of Quaker Education.


Posted in: Features
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