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Bringing Our Guilt to the Light

Acknowledging the harms we have inflicted. Lindsay-Rose Dunstan
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Friends Ugandan Safe Transport responds to renewed anti-LGBTQ actions in Uganda

Friends Ugandan Safe Transport (FUST) issued a call in December 2019 for increased support to counter renewed anti-LGBTQ pressures in… FJ News Editor
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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… Stephen McNeil
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Proclaiming Love and Justice

A history of American Friends Service Committee's work for LGBTQ rights and recognition. Stephen McNeil

From a Quaker View of Sex

Quick! Name the most influential document published by British Quakers in the twentieth century. It’s probably a 1963 pamphlet entitled… Mitchell Santine Gould

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… Staff

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Find out what's new, what's free, and what's coming soon, here at friendsjournal.org, a hub of Quaker thought and life… The staff of Friends Journal

August 2012 Forum

VIEWPOINT: Feeding the World takes more than Backyard Gardens The main theme of the articles in May’s food issue is… Martin Kelley

Friends, Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interview with Doug Bennett

A video interview with Friends Journal author Doug Bennett. Bennett is President Emeritus of Earlham College and a member of… Douglas C. Bennett
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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

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… AlvinJFigueroa

My Journey among Friends

I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, "sensitive" child, I didn’t… Kevin-Douglas G. Olive
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