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A Long Way To Run In This Cruelest of Months

Phidippides / Two thousand and some years ago / ran all alone / on his forty thousand meter footfall from… Robert E. Young
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A Nightshift Education

Learning the value of an honest job. "I had fancied myself a class-conscious progressive. It shouldn't have startled me to… Martin Kelley

Update on Indiana Yearly Meeting Breakup

Indiana Yearly Meeting is continuing to head toward schism. Friends Journal last covered this in our June/July issue with a…

Pretending to Be What You’re Not

Are you ever surprised when your perception of people is completely different from the way they see themselves? That there…

Gun Violence, Quakers, and the Presidential Election

As Quakers, how do we respond to the continuous news about gun violence? How do we show that peace is…

Congratulations, Earlham School of Religion

Unprogrammed Friends are fond of saying that we’ve abolished the laity and each of us is called to a ministry.…

Reading 50 Years of FRIENDS JOURNAL

I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…

The Journey to Answering That of God in Everyone

I’m probably one of the few Friends who has an aversion to the term "that of God in every one."…

Difficult Times in Ramallah

This is a difficult note to write. So much has happened and there is so much to say. It has…

Christmas Newsletter

As I sit down to write this Christmas [2000] newsletter, I cannot help but reflect on last Christmas, which I…

Prayer: The Changer and the Changed

Not coming from a prayer-oriented family or community, I found the idea of praying for someone vaguely embarrassing. "What’s the…
Among Friends

Alabama ’96

From the May 1996 issue: ometimes a news article touches the heart and moves people to reach out to one… Vinton Deming
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