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With Malice toward None, Charity toward All

For a while after Jack Powelson’s article entitled "Why I am Leaving Quakers" (FJ April 2002) came out, a number…

Seeking Better Solutions

When I look at the line-up of articles this month, I’m reminded that Truth is complex. The best solutions to…

A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine

For years I vowed never to return to Palestine, my birthplace, because, as a Jew—albeit a secular Jew—I felt a…

Failure to Disperse

When I woke up that morning, I had no intention of getting arrested. I coaxed myself out of bed, drank…

Preparing for Hard Times

As I write, I’ve just returned from the Friends General Conference Gathering in Johnstown, Pa., where we collectively spent a…

Let Us Be Peace

One needn’t have an appreciation of the esoteric or a feeling for energy fields to perceive the palpable present anguish…

Addressing Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Most of us have reaped the benefits of an economy powered by fossil fuel. There is no need to list…

To Friends Journal Readers: A Response

I am grateful to have been able to follow the debate over my remarks that were printed in Friends Journal…

Torture a Few to Save Many?

Should the United States resort to torture in defending against terrorism? Suppose a man is in custody who knows where…

A Focus on the Present

This month’s lineup of articles has me quite excited for a variety of reasons. "The Faces of ‘Collateral Damage’" (p.…

Pioneering the Possibilities

Recognition of the true nature of the world’s physical and spiritual problems requires the awareness of both where we are,…

The Faces of ‘Collateral Damage’

I am a public health physician. In January I participated in a ten-day emergency mission to Iraq, sponsored by the…
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