At its 2011 annual sessions in August, New England Yearly Meeting held a panel discussion to advance Friends’ discernment of NEYM’s relationship with Friends United Meeting. Friends United Meeting (FUM) is one of the three “umbrella organizations” of Friends in the United States, along with Friends General Conference and Evangelical Friends Church International. FUM was […]
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New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore Their Relationship with Friends United Meeting
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Drinking At The Well
This month we bring you a spontaneous special issue on the recent “Heeding God’s Call: A Gathering on Peace,” held in January at the Arch Street Meetinghouse in Philadelphia, and sponsored by the Historic Peace Churches (Quakers, Mennonites, and Brethren). The first inkling that we might do such an issue came when Tom Swain, clerk […]
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The Peace Gathering: An Overview
From January 13 through 17, 2009, at Arch Street Meetinghouse in Philadelphia, nearly 400 people from 48 Christian denominations and organizations, along with Jewish and Muslim participant-observers, met to participate in Heeding God’s Call: A Gathering on Peace. The gathering was hosted by the “Historic Peace Churches” (Quakers, Mennonites, and Brethren) but strove to be […]
Daniel Coppock is a member of Eastern Hills Monthly Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he is serving as an intern at Friends Journal. Therese Miller is a member of Lewisburg (Pa.) Meeting and served as director of the Peace Gathering.
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We Need A Public Investigation of 9/11
I appreciated Steve Chase’s thoughtful article about the controversies surrounding what happened on 9/11 (“Sifting through the Rubble: the 9/11 Controversies,” FJ August 2008). I agree it is important to know what led to the events of that fateful day and that many troubling questions remain unanswered. Friends Bulletin (the official publication of Western unprogrammed […]
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June/July 2018: Creativity and the Arts
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Art That Works by Joey Hartmann-Dow
No Such Thing as Silence by Kevin Holm-Hudson
Writing and Marketing Crime Fiction by Edith Maxwell
The Dance Studio is My Other Meetinghouse by Arthur Fink
Art Exhibition as a New Ministry by Jiae Paik
Blessed Are the Artists by Maggie Nelson
A Reluctant Minister by Peterson Toscano
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Written a few weeks after the Inauguration of President Barack Obama last year, this is reprinted with permission from the Oberlin College (Ohio) Alumni Magazine, Spring, 2009, with minor editorial changes. By now, you would have to be living in fact-free limbo to believe Barack Obama is a “secret Muslim,” as some opponents suggested during […]
Roger Copeland is a professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College. He is the author of What Is Dance? and Merce Cunningham: The modernizing of Modern Dance.
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