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Forum April 2017

Letters from our readers: upcoming issue announcement, a full year of Trump?!?, teaching peace, Friend without a meeting, kudos to… Staff
Features

Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times

Shan Cretin looka back at 100 years of Quaker action and witness. Shan Cretin
Faith and Practice

Preparing for Intimacy with God

Faith and Practice: Leaving worship in a state of discontent. Elliott Robertson

Forum, March 2017

Letters from our readers. Discussions on peak experiences, picking business partners, beliefs and practices of Friends, teaching in non-Quaker schools,… Staff
Features

Welcoming the Strong Black Woman among Us

The energy to appear strong and the socially imposed obligation to rise above it all can be exhausting. Valerie Brown
Features

Stumbling Forward toward Racial Justice among Friends

Two Friends share their stories of growing up in a race-defined world and how they've been led to work for… Lucy Duncan and Noah White
Features

God Loves Us All?

The still, small voice within tells us that any work or sacrifice without love is a waste of time. Phil Lord
Features

Our Drop in the Wave of Liberation

A visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Lauren Brownlee
Online Features

Honoring Those Known Only to God

A group of Friends hopes to identify North American Quaker burial grounds that hold remains of African American men, women,… Honoring Project
Features

Memorializing Friends of African Descent

A Friends meeting learns about an invisible racial history right in its own backyard. Liz Oppenheimer interview with George Schaefer

Patricia Grady Loring

Loring—Patricia Grady Loring, 80, on August 21, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. Pat (original surname Grady) was born on July 26,… Staff
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Mystical Experience, the Bedrock of Quaker Faith

We are not passive, empty vessels hoping to be filled; we have to move toward God. Robert Atchley
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