GravesāDale G. Graves, 73, on December 10, 2018, in Indiana. Dale was born on September 7, 1945, in San Francisco, [ā¦]
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News, October 2018
Departures from Wilmington Yearly Meeting; new head of Olney Friends School appointed.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, News
News, December 2017
News of Friends: What Canst Thou Say? Colloquium; Quaker leaders part of church delegation to the Middle East; appointment at [ā¦]
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, News
Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem
We have to find ways to build relationships and maintain our Quaker tradition.
Margaret Fraser has served as interim pastoral minister at West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting, executive secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas, and dean of Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pa. She was presiding clerk of the New Association of Friends from 2013 to 2015.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker EcosystemSumoud: Voices and Images of the Ramallah Friends School
By Betsy Brinson and Gordon Davies. Friends United Press, 2014. 142 pages. $35/hardcover. Sumoud, artfully prepared by historian Betsy Brinson [ā¦]
Maia Carter Hallward is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and an associate professor of Middle East politics and international conflict management at Kennesaw State University. She taught at the Ramallah Friends Schools from 1998 to 2000, and has led several delegations to the region to meet with Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers. Maiaās books include Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada and Transnational Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Posted in: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book ReviewsFGC, FUM types of worship
I became a Liberal unprogrammed Friend in a conservative state. The small, familyālike meeting I eventually joined was a little [ā¦]
Posted in: Departments
My Journey among Friends
I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, āsensitiveā child, I didnāt [ā¦]
Kevin-Douglas G. Olive is a member of Baltimore (Md.) Meeting-Homewood, and attends Seton Hill Worship Group in Baltimore. A French teacher, he is a member of Friends General Conference's Advancement and Outreach Committee.
Posted in: FeaturesPeace in the World, Peace among Friends
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not [ā¦]
Mary Ellen McNish, a member of Byberry Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., is general secretary of American Friends Service Committee.
Posted in: Features
Features
Thou Shalt Wear Comfy Shoes by Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan
In Defense of Blue KoolāAid by Kat Griffith
The Next Testimony by Andrew Huff
How to Be an Inclusive Quaker by Valerie Brown
Uncertainty: An Unnamed Quaker Creed? by Rhiannon Grant
When Is a Creed Not a Creed? by Ann Birch
Poetry
River Crossing by Anne+Maren-Hogan
Somewhere in This Large Field by David Black
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