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Immigration and Friends Testimonies: Seeing That of God in Our Immigrant Neighbors
Friends have been concerned about the exploitation and dehumanization of workers for many years, most notably in our opposition to…
Convergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’
Have you ever sensed that the earliest Quakers had a fire that seems to be missing now? What do we…
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Why Young Friends Need Elders—and Why They Need Us
To be a Young Friend is to be in transition—to be in a time of great possibility, uncertainty, and formation.…
Micah Bales
Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends
Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be…
”Walking the Walk: Greg Woods
In December 1999, 14-year-old Greg Woods attended the "High School Quake," a gathering of Illinois Yearly Meeting youth. Along with…
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…
Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools
Quakers believe in truth-seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences…
Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…
The Sabbath Year at Central Philadelphia Meeting
“The Sabbath year has been unfolding so wonderfully. . . . I feel like we are growing and sprouting individually…
Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years
Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…
A Friend’s Testimony on Domestic Violence?
We are called upon to love the loveless and the unlovable, to reach out to the racists and the torturers,…
Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword
The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…
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