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A Letter from a Warrior

A World War II soldier and POW shares hope for the future. George Rubin
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Allow Me to Introduce You, Witches and Friends

Navigating points of tension to find core values in common. Meagan Fischer

Forum March 2015

Letters, comments, and emails from our readers
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Exploring the Unwritten Rules of Meeting for Worship

How does an internalized sense of rules influence the quality of meeting for worship? Debbie Humphries
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We Think He Might Be a Boy

Raising a transgender child. Su Penn
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Surmounting our Quaker Language Barriers

The young woman stood outside our meetinghouse staring at our sign. Neatly calligraphed and painted in carefully chosen, muted hues,… Rick Seifert

Walking the Labyrinth

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

Bringing the Quaker into Hospital Chaplaincy

Every day I step into a blizzard that has swept in on someone’s life. I’m a chaplain in an acute…

Wielding Thor’s Hammer: What It Means to Write as Ministry

According to an old Norse legend of the early days in the time before this time, the god Thor patrolled…

What Are Schools For?

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of…

Ministry and Money in the Experience of Earlier Friends

The connection between money and ministry is such a hot-button issue for many unprogrammed Friends. It might be useful to…

Does Your Meeting Need a Bill of Rights?

About ten years ago, West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting was shattered by a case of sexual harassment, where a respected member…
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