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Christina May Lahmer Taran
Taran—Christina May Lahmer Taran, 96, on December 3, 2016, in Edmonds, Wash. A twin, Christina was born on January 26,…
Forum, March 2017
Letters from our readers. Discussions on peak experiences, picking business partners, beliefs and practices of Friends, teaching in non-Quaker schools,…
Online Features
Falling Through the Cracks: The Children of Calais
Across the Channel from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, approximately 10,000 men, women, and children lived in…
Kate McNally
Mercedes Tharam Richards
Richards—Mercedes Tharam Richards, 60, on February 3, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. Mercedes was born on May 14, 1955, in Kingston,…
Viewpoint: Toward a Better Understanding
A reader suggests that even a simple tool such as Wikipedia can help us learn more about violent extremists.
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Memories of My Father’s Memories
The humanity and inhumanity of the Manhattan Project.
Ralph G. Steinhardt
Growing Up in Germany During World War II
We had not heard from my Uncle Helmut in years: “lost in action,” we were told. Then one day in…
Truth As a Moving Target On A Local Train
On a hot summer morning in July 1979, I was riding a local train from Geneva to Basel. Families, individuals,…
Rolling Through Fox Country
In September 2010, I was privileged to organize a tour of Fox country for a group from my yearly meeting.…
La Maison Quaker
Bright orange passion fruits hang from vines that cover most of a stuccoed stone wall and creep over the edges…
Quakers in Germany during and after the World Wars
At the end of the 17th century, groups of German Quakers migrated to North America, leaving only very small, scattered…
One German’s Response to What My Nation Did in World War II
Two weeks after I first moved from Germany to Los Angeles in 2002 to study theology, a fellow seminarian asked…
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