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Jay O'Hara is a member of Sandwich (Mass.) Meeting, and a co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, climatedisobedience.org. The NEYM Prophetic Climate Action Working Group consists of Alice Grendon, Brian Drayton, Dunan Herman-Parks, Jay O'Hara, John Humphries, Katherine Fisher, Louis Cox, Meg Klepack, Minga Claggett-Borne, Peter Blood-Patterson, Ruah Swennerfeldt, and Wendy Schlotterbeck.

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New Worldwide Quaker Map Released

By FJ Staff on September 13, 2017

Friends World Committee for Consultation released a new map of worldwide Quaker population figures, its first such release since 2012.

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Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem

By Margaret Fraser on June 1, 2017

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

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Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change

By Reviewed by Rob Pierson on November 1, 2016

By Stephen A. Jurovics. Morehouse Publishing, 2016. 155 pages. $18/paperback; $16/eBook. Ever since Evangelical Protestants rediscovered that the world is […]

Rob Pierson is a member of Albuquerque (N.M.) Meeting, a systems engineer, and a graduate of Earlham School of Religion with a particular interest in pilgrimage, nature, sacred space, and the intimate relation of science and faith.