Gretchen Castle was named the next chair of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions at its meeting […]
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FWCC secretary to lead world ecumenical organization
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Posted in: Drugs, NewsDavid Lore
Lore—David Lore, 77, on January 23, 2018, in Marietta, Ga., after a struggle with heart and kidney issues. David was […]
Posted in: Gambling, Milestones
Not One Quaker Experience but Many
Among Friends: Our introduction to the December issue on Quakers and Christianity.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and ChristianityNeil Harmon Hartman
Hartman—Neil Harmon Hartman, 97, on February 6, 2018, in Medford, N.J. Neil was born on June 8, 1920, in Cedarville, […]
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Milestones
We Are Pilgrims on a Journey
A faithful response to climate change.
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.
Posted in: Faith and Practice, Quaker LifestylesNew Worldwide Quaker Map Released
Friends World Committee for Consultation released a new map of worldwide Quaker population figures, its first such release since 2012.
Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
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
Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change
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.
Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media
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