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Silence in the Noise

The world is so noisy, especially now. We are surrounded by so much racket that it’s hard to discern how… Mary Braden

Gathering Prayer

A prayer from the FGC Gathering
Audio

Author Amy Ward Brimmer reads “Fall Down Seven Times”

A story about failure, dead ends, and misunderstandings. Amy Ward Brimmer

My Spiritual Trinity

Quaker meeting, jazz blue groove, and the sweat lodge.
Features

This Age of Insecurity

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power. Ron McDonald
Friends in Business

A Call for Courage in the Boardroom

Friends in Business. Jane Mack
Film Review

12 Years a Slave: A Reflection

"White Narcissim" author Ron McDonald writes about the classic slave narrative and what it still reveals to us. Ron McDonald
Book Club

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more… Staff

Survival and resistance: a message from Quaker House, Fayetteville (Ft. Bragg), N.C.

Quakerism was born in a time of revolutionary upheaval. Yet it learned how to survive when the revolution failed and…