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Resisting the Fake News about Jesus

From George Fox to today. Christopher E. Stern
Among Friends

Balancing Spirit and a Leadership of Experience

Introduction to our June-July issue. Martin Kelley

Quaker Initiative to End Torture

The Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT) celebrates 17 years as an educational nonprofit sharing information on the history, policy,… Quaker Works
Student Voices Project 2022

Coping with Eco-Anxiety as a Climate Activist

On a daily basis, anyone following the news is confronted with headlines about the climate crisis. Isabelle Reinecke
Poetry

Having to Live With

Sometimes it's your sleeping form next to me / your fingers curled at the nape of my neck... David Morse
Poetry

Some Days

Some days I want to tell the newscasters I don’t want to know about the brown-eyed little girl missing from… Colette Tennant
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Something Odd about the Dyers

Mr. Erick Dyer, a Quaker man from an old Quaker family, found the pod in his farm’s back forest on… Mel Stephen Sharpe
Life in the Meeting

Pandemic Discoveries

Reflections on the year with queries addressing unexpected joys, things we learned, and something new we tried during the year. Mary Ann Downey
Student Voices Project 2021

A Year of Protest

It doesn’t exactly have positive connotations, yet 2020 most definitely was full of protest, and it is hard to say… Robert Rayner
Poetry

Here Am I, Lord, Send Me

for my grandmother, Miriam Lindsey Levering (1913-1991) Blue light a nimbus from the TV, she’s listeningto the darkness delivering news… Alexander Levering
Features

A Quaker Retirement Community Faces the Pandemic

Creativity and service flowers under quarantine. Nancy Thomas
Student Voices Project 2020

Made for Killing

About 14 out of every 100,000 people in North Carolina were killed by a gun in 2016, according to the… Olive Shull
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