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Teaching Equality
Chloe Arden Allman, Grade 9, Westtown School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Faithful Sexuality
By the Working Party on Spirituality and Sexual Ethics. New England Yearly Meeting, 2016. 68 pages. $10/pamphlet; free PDF available […]
Gulielma Leonard Fager is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a Friends Publishing Corporation board member.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries
Interview with Stephen McNeil, author of “Proclaiming Love and Justice”
FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an […]
Posted in: Audio
Proclaiming Love and Justice
A history of American Friends Service Committee’s work for LGBTQ rights and recognition.
Stephen McNeil, a member of Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, Calif., serves as AFSC’s San Francisco Wage Peace director. He has served as staff for 32 years and on a program committee for seven years. He has also served in various roles with Friends Committee on National Legislation for 16 years.
Timeline based on the work of AFSC archivist Jack Sutters.
Posted in: Features, May 2016: Gender and Sexuality
Thomas Hamm on Division in Indiana
To someone who is not familiar with the controversy in Indiana Yearly Meeting, what would be your synopsis of the […]
Thomas Hamm is professor of history and director of special collections at Earlham College. A lifelong member of First Friends Meeting in New Castle, Indiana, he has served as recording clerk and a member of the executive committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting, and was co-clerk of the Reconfiguration Task Force of Indiana Yearly Meeting.
He has written or edited a number of works on Quaker history, most recently Quaker Writings, 1650–1920, published by Penguin Classics in 2011.
Posted in: February 2013, Q&A
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August 2012 Forum
VIEWPOINT: Feeding the World takes more than Backyard Gardens The main theme of the articles in May’s food issue is […]
Posted in: August 2012: Sustainable Travel, Forum
Friends, Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interview with Doug Bennett
Douglas C. Bennett is President Emeritus of Earlham College and a member of First Friends in Richmond, Indiana.
Posted in: Video
Homosexuality: A Plea to Read the Bible Together
Homosexuality is the issue that most threatens to create new schisms in the world of Quakers. Yet it could be […]
Douglas C. Bennett is President Emeritus of Earlham College and a member of First Friends in Richmond, Indiana.
Posted in: Features
Clashing with the ‘B’ Word: Homophobia in Liberal Quakerism
Now that we are addressing the issue of same-gender marriages in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, I think it is pertinent to […]
Alvin J. Figueroa, a member of Westfield (N.J.) Meeting. is associate professor of Modern Languages, Gender Studies, and Religious Studies at the College of New Jersey. He is also a candidate for a master of arts in Quaker Studies at Earlham School of Religion. He lives with his spouse, Gary, a Buddhist, in Rancocas Historic Village.
Posted in: Features
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