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‘How Is Thee’: Musings on Ironies and Self Justification Among Friends

For a long time I have had a back-burner interest in the evolution of the use of thee, thou, and… Albert W. Briggs Jr.

The Little Museum that Could: Documenting My ‘Neighbors’ Fate-and My Own

In a train from Prague to Ostrava, spring 1992: Navigating his high-school German and my miserable Czech, the well-dressed business… Michael Luick-Thrams

”What We Have Lost

My morning walks along Main Street in Moorestown, New Jersey, take me past former workcamp director David Richie’s place where… Charles Perrone

Julien Davies Cornell: Gentle Quaker, Determined Litigator

In December 1994, the New York Times published an obituary titled "Julien Cornell, 83, The Defense Lawyer in Ezra Pound… Charles F. Howlett

Tidbits of History: 340 Years of Quaking in the Carolinas

In 1998 North Carolina Yearly Meeting, which maintained its unity until 1903, celebrated its 300-year anniversary. The earliest Friends in… Gary Briggs

Elias Hicks, Environmentalist

Elias Hicks is best known among Friends as the man for whom one branch of Quakers was named following the… Paul Buckley

The God Within: A Jewish Refugee’s Path to Quakers Perspective

According to Quakers, God is present in everyone. I first learned the great truth of this saying in a time… France Pruitt

The Liberation of Nathan Swift

On an April day in 1839, a young Quaker farmer was out with his plowhorse working the family fields in… Daniel Jenkins

Knowing and Sharing Our Faith and Its Historical Influence

Why isn’t there a cross?" asks a young boy, visiting with his 5th grade class from North Carolina. "Where does… Paulette Meier

The Friends of Truth: A Case for Reclaiming Our Earlier Name

Though most Friends have forgotten it (or never heard it in the first place), the Friends of Truth was our… Robert Griswold

Christmas 1944

The small photo shows three children smiling, each clutching a book, waving to someone behind a third-story window. It is… Tina Coffin

U.S. Conscientious Objectors in World War II

World War II was a very important period in the history of U.S. conscientious objectors. When the draft was activated,… John Mascari
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