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A Nightshift Education

Learning the value of an honest job. "I had fancied myself a class-conscious progressive. It shouldn't have startled me to… Martin Kelley
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Christmas in Kenya

An American returns to a boyhood home in Kenya. David Hallock Sanders

Interview with Nathan Alling Long, Author of “Holy Day”

This month, we feature a short fiction piece about a couple resolving a disagreement about the meaning of Christmas. Nathan…

Gun Violence, Quakers, and the Presidential Election

As Quakers, how do we respond to the continuous news about gun violence? How do we show that peace is…

Traveling Ministry

The theme of the August 2012 issue is “traveling.” This is an excerpt on traveling in the ministry from the…

Belonging: Quakers, Membership, and the Need to be Known

hat role does monthly meeting membership play in our understanding of faith and belonging?  Can someone be a Quaker without… Emily Higgs

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the…

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

The Covenant of Peace

What did Jesus mean by the “Kingdom of God,” what the early Quakers called the “Covenant of Peace” (Ezk. 34:25)?…

Inspiration From Quaker Women of the Past

I have received much inspiration and encouragement from the stories of earlier Quaker women who were willing to take the…

Walking the Labyrinth

"This is the message we have heard and declare to you: God is light; in God there is no darkness…

Quaker Women’s Theology Conference

When the invitation to write an article for Friends Journal about the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference (PNWQWTC) came…
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