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The Dance Studio Is My Other Meetinghouse
Arthur Fink is a photographer of dance and other subjects; a sought-after speaker; a consultant helping organizations with mission, focus, communication, and conflict; a mentor to many; and co-recording clerk of Portland (Maine) Meeting. His most recent show was of photographs taken at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
Writing Opp: Creativity and the Arts (Due 3/5)
Early Friends were famously skeptical of art; modern Friends pretty much fully embrace it. Why the abrupt turnaround? What reasons [ā¦]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal:Ā [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Tying Up the Cat
Have we forgotten the reasons for our practices?
Donne Hayden is a member of Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting. In 2012, she attended the Friends World Committee for Consultation World Gathering of Friends in Kenya, where she saw the Spirit move in singing and dancing Friends.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features
Crostini with Olive Tapenadeā¦ and Tea
Friends find a tasty way to raise funds for the meeting library.
Ruthie Tippin is a recorded Friends minister. She has served in pastoral ministry in West Branch, Iowa, and most recently at First Friends Meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. Now retired, Ruthie continues to serve Friends in various ways as a retreat speaker, worship leader, and encourager to meetings and their members.
Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries
ePublishers of Truth
The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends.
Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels extensively among Friends with a concern for how we connect both digitally and face-to-face. She also serves New England Yearly Meeting as events coordinator and social media manager. Kathleen shares her travels and learning at quakerkathleen.wordpress.com.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Online Features
Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey
By Marcelle Martin. Inner Light Books, 2016. 230 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback; $10/eBook. Marcelle Martin, known to many for her work [ā¦]
Marty Grundy is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting of New England Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: August 2016 Books, August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Quaker Book Reviews
The Spirit of Mediation
The Friends Peace Testimony points out a different approach.
Erik Cleven is a PhD candidate in political science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a member of Lafayette Meeting in West Lafayette, Ind. Before starting graduate school, he spent many years working with conflict transformation and inter-ethnic dialogue in many different countries. Erik is writing his dissertation about ethnic violence in Kenya and Kosovo.Ā This article is adapted from a plenary speech at the 2012 Friends General Conference Gathering</a>.
Posted in: Features, September 2012
Vibrant Meetings Grow the Religious Society of Friends
In 2007, Friends World Committee for Consultation reported 35,413 unprogrammed Friends, about oneātenth of 1 percent of the U.S. population. [ā¦]
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Quakers and Christianity
December 2018 Full Issue Access
Features:
The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity by Lauren Brownlee
Are We Really Christian? by Margaret Namubuya Amudavi
Inward Power by Gene Hillman
God, Jesus, Christianity, and Quakers by Jim Cain
Understanding Belief by Elizabeth Boardman
A Consideration of Metaphors by Rhiannon Grant
A Space for Doubt by Jeff Rasley
Online Features:
Quaker Christian Ways and Roots by Donne Hayden
How Am I a Christian? by Douglas C. Bennett
The White Rabbit of Quaker Theology by Christy Randazzo
Sweet Baby Jesus! by Patricia Wild
The Challenge of Quaker Christianity by Andrew Gage
Learning from John Woolman by Helene Pollock
Staying in It: Being Quaker and Radically Christian in Our Time by Marcelle Martin
Poetry:
Holy Night, Holy Light by Ken Gibble
A Chore Worth Doing by Bear Jack Gerhardt
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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 [ā¦]
Chuck Fager has been director of Quaker House in Fayetteville (Ft. Bragg), N.C., since 2002, where he and others conduct GI counseling, peace work (rallies, vigils, etc.), and serve as a resource on peace concerns for Friends groups and others. He is a member of State College (Pa.) Meeting, and an attender of Fayetteville (N.C.) Meeting. He can be reached at [email protected]; information about Quaker House is at http://www.quakerhouse.org/
Posted in: Features