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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.

Posted in: Faith and Practice, Quaker Lifestyles

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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.

Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media

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Among Friends: Expanding the Definition of Home

By Gail Whiffen on October 1, 2016

An introduction to our issue on “Crossing Cultures.”

Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Among Friends, Crossing Cultures

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We Think We’re Separate

By Robin Mohr on October 1, 2016

Quaker honesty requires us to acknowledge what we are addressing and what we are ignoring.

Robin Mohr has served as executive secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas since 2011. She and her husband, Christopher, are members of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., and have two sons, now in high school and college.

Posted in: Crossing Cultures, Features

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