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This Age of Insecurity

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power. Ron McDonald
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Interview with Rosemary Zimmermann

Friends Journal's new poetry editor Rosemary Zimmerman
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Practicing Deep Empathy

Mentoring Those Unlike Ourselves Leslie Madsen-Brooks
Poetry

I Tell Him about the Body Bags

Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done... Meredith Trede

Viewpoint: Idealism and Pacifism

The early Quaker words and their implications are haunting. No matter how deeply our sense of justice is affronted and…
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Allow Me to Introduce You, Witches and Friends

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

Student Voices: Inspiration

Students respond to inspirational quotes.
Among Friends

Among Friends September 2014

From Unwitting to Unwilling Gabriel Ehri
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Film Review: The Sessions

In one memorable scene from The Sessions, Father Brendan (played by William H. Macy) reflects during confession, “It’s amazing how… Reviewed by Jana Llewellyn

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…

Those Other Branch Quakers

“Be careful of those ‘other branch’ Quakers.” These words were spoken to me at a recent Wednesday evening Bible study by…

Composting as Holy Sacrament

In my family album, there is a picture that my mother took of me in 1945 as a two-year-old “helping”…
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