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Forum, September 2018
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News, December 2017
News of Friends: What Canst Thou Say? Colloquium; Quaker leaders part of church delegation to the Middle East; appointment at […]
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 Ecosystem
Sumoud: 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 […]
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. Maia’s 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 Reviews
FGC, FUM types of worship
I became a Liberal unprogrammed Friend in a conservative state. The small, family‐like meeting I eventually joined was a little […]
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My Journey among Friends
I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, “sensitive” child, I didn’t […]
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: Features
Peace 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 […]
Mary Ellen McNish, a member of Byberry Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., is general secretary of American Friends Service Committee.
Posted in: Features
U.S. Quakers: Hybrid Corn?
Years ago I heard our gifted Quaker economist‐philosopher‐poet Kenneth Boulding compare U.S. Quakers to hybrid corn. His interesting observation was […]
William Edgerton is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. Gratefully dedicated to the memory of Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993), Quaker economist, philosopher, poet, and spiritual leader.
Posted in: Features
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Books That Have Changed Us
November 2018 Full Issue Access
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
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Communion by Nancy L. Bieber
If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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