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New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore Their Relationship with Friends United Meeting

At its 2011 annual sessions in August, New England Yearly Meeting held a panel discussion to advance Friends’ discernment of… Friends Journal Editors

Our New Best Friend?

Written a few weeks after the Inauguration of President Barack Obama last year, this is reprinted with permission from the… RogerCopeland

Concerned about Israel and/or Palestine: Perhaps We Are Part of the Problem

In October 2008, I traveled to the West Bank on behalf of Friends World Committee for Consultation-Europe and Middle East… Lindsey Fielder Cook

Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: The Risks that Faith Asks

On April 29 of this year, I was blessed to attend the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI) in Washington,… Stephen Dotson

Learning to Love Paul Wolfowitz, and Other Impossible Tasks

My activities that Sunday morning were supposed to be Christmasy and result in life actually improving in some small way… Debby Churchman

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… Susan Corson-Finnerty

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… Daniel Coppock

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… Anthony Manousos

My Inaugural Journey

My journey to the National Mall on inaugural day began many years ago. As a little black girl growing up… Laura Ward Holliday

A Challenge to Friends

Susan Corson-Finnerty is away, which gives me the welcome task of preparing this column. For us at Friends Journal, November… Robert Dockhorn

Another View on 9/11

As a former staff member of the 9/11 Commission and a Quaker, I was interested in the article in the… Walter Hempel

Sifting Through the Rubble: The 9/11 Controversies

Friends are advised to minister to those in need but also to seek to know the facts and the causes… Steve Chase
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