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Spiritual Simplicity

There’s more to simplicity than tidying up our physical spaces. Andrew Huff
Features

My Year of Living Eschatologically

Awareness of end times comes to a Friend diagnosed with a terminal illness. Muriel Edgerton
Online Features

Food Choices, Relationship, and God

Learning to understand what we are actually hungry for. Lorene Ludy
Online Features

Interrupting the Family Barbecue: In Search of the Planetary Health Diet

The urgency of transforming our systems for food production. Jim Ross
Online Features

A Critique of Health Consciousness

The possible ill effects of worrying too much and talking too much about our food choices. Caroline Morris
Among Friends

Skirting Around the Competition

Our introduction to the May issue on "Friendly Competition?" Gail Whiffen
Student Voices Project

A Homeschooler’s Point of View on Competition

My whole life I have been raised as a Quaker homeschooler, so I have not been placed into different classes… Finn Rae Kyrie
Student Voices Project

One Big Problem

There’s one big problem I notice that relates to competition, and it is caused by masculinity. It’s a problem not… Casey Smothers
Student Voices Project

High School Hierarchy

I cried yesterday. I was sobbing: red, wet, puffy, and gross because of the academic competition I face in school… Felicity Medina
Student Voices Project

Ego or Integrity

Dum, da, da, da, rang the bell—class had started. I tensed up; did I have to go to the bathroom?… Kosette Koons-Perdikis
Student Voices Project

Community of Numeric Competitors

I came home, excited after a day full of learning, to find my mother waiting for me at the door… Ilaria Luna
Student Voices Project

What Page Are You On?

Competition surrounds my life. In almost everything I do there is some sort of a competition involved even when there… Nicole Sosnik
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