Friends House

Among Friends

Heroes and Role Models

Introduction to our January issue. Martin Kelley
Features

Flawed Quaker Heroes

Questioning the Narrative of William Penn Kathleen Bell
Features

A Utopia in Progress

Communal life at Beacon Hill Friends House Jennifer Newman and Nils Klinkenberg
News

William Penn’s name removed from room in London’s Friends House

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) announced on April 10, “In a step towards becoming an actively anti-racist church, Quakers will cease… FJ News Editors

Marie Haves Schutz

Schutz—Marie Haves Schutz, 98, on August 21, 2020, at Friends House retirement community in Santa Rosa, Calif., home for the…

Joan Forest

Forest—Joan Forest, 90, on February 18, 2020, in her room at La Posada Retirement Community in Santa Cruz, Calif., peacefully,…

Laura Cynthia Sutherland Gibian

Gibian—Laura Cynthia Sutherland Gibian, 102, on February 3, 2020, completing her journey in her Friends House apartment in Sandy Spring,…

Betty Hutchinson

Hutchinson—Betty Hutchinson, 99, of Friends House, in Sandy Spring, Md., on May 16, 2019, in Olney, Md. Betty was born…
News

FWCC secretary to lead world ecumenical organization

  retchen Castle was named the next chair of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions at its meeting… Staff

Joseph Evans Rogers Jr.

Rogers—Joseph Evans Rogers Jr., 80, on January 11, 2019, from metastasized prostate cancer. Joe was born on January 8, 1939,…

Peter George Walsh

Walsh—Peter George Walsh, 102, on May 27, 2018, in Takoma Park, Md. Peter was born on March 4, 1916, in…

Maria Barbara Lenz Ladd

Ladd—Maria Barbara Lenz Ladd, 91, of Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md., on June 28, 2017. Maria was born on…
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