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A Truly Embodied Spirituality

The last in a three-part series on Quakerism, food, and the body. Madeline Schaefer
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Let God Out of the Meetinghouse

Are Friends too hung up on our Sunday morning rituals? Micah Bales
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A Message in Clay

A time of personal brokenness inspires a clay artist. Jiae Paik

Those Other Branch Quakers

“Be careful of those ‘other branch’ Quakers.” These words were spoken to me at a recent Wednesday evening Bible study by…

Sharing the Gifts of the Spirit

What Friends Have to Offer the Wider Church Silence washed over the hundreds of women and men gathered together in the…

Mary Fisher: Maidservant Turned Prophet

When Friends in Moscow recently designed a postcard to share the message of Quakerism, the 17th-century Quaker they chose 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…

”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.…

Discovering Fellowship among African American Friends

In 1992, shortly after I joined Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting and officially became a Quaker, it was announced on public…

Mickey Edgerton

Muriel (Mickey) Wesner Edgerton is openly self-effacing. Punctuated by her distinctive giggle, she characterizes herself as a "blabbermouth," an "extrovert,"…

Drinking the Living Water: Pilgrimage to Taize

A convinced Friend and former Catholic, I never thought I would agree with the pope about anything . . .…

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…
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