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Facing Hard Truths
Robin Mohr is happily married with two young adult children. She currently serves on the property committee of her monthly meeting and as executive secretary for Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas. This article is based on her personal leading and does not reflect an official position of FWCC.
Posted in: Features, The State of Quaker Institutions
Why I Identify as Quaker
The question is not if God exists, but what is the nature of God.
Kurt H. Parkum lives in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Posted in: The State of Quaker Institutions, Viewpoint
Interview with Jessica Metheringham, creator of Disarm the Base
We talk with the Quaker creator of a new antiwar, direct action board game.
Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Interview, The State of Quaker Institutions
The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few
By Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard. BerrettâKoehler Publishers, 2019. 192 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook.
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Her most recent book is Money and Soul, an expansion of a Pendle Hill pamphlet by the same name.
Posted in: April 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, The State of Quaker Institutions
The Workings of the Spirit of God Within: The Offices of Christ
By David Johnson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 459), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet or eBook.
Rausie Hobson is a member of Rocky River Meeting in Siler City, N.C., Friends Church of North Carolina. She is a retired ESL teacher and public librarian, a member of Quakers Uniting in Publications, and was publications board clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM) for many years.
Posted in: April 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, The State of Quaker Institutions
The Next Testimony
Can Friends model a new kind of Christian governance?
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass., in 2015â16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
How to Be an Inclusive Quaker
The unwritten norms of speech and silence.
Valerie Brown is a Buddhist and Quaker teacher, retreat leader, leadership coach, and writer. She is the founder of Lead Smart Coaching. She leads an annual pilgrimage to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain to celebrate the power of sacred places.
Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
When Is a Creed Not a Creed?
Revisiting that of God in every man.
Ann Birch is a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting, where she is currently the clerk. She is a librarian, a grandmother, and active in local theater.
Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
How Far Have You Traveled?
By John Calvi. True Quaker Press, 2019. 236 pages. $14.95/paperback.
Bob Dixon-Kolar is an associate professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He and his family are members of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.
Posted in: March 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
May 2020: Friends Face a Pandemic / Thin Spaces
Features
A Quaker Retirement Community Faces the Pandemic by Nancy Thomas
Worshiping Online with Friends by Katie Breslin
Communing Together Virtually by Greg Woods
Student Voices
Seventh Annual Student Voices Project
Thin Spaces Features
God in the ATM by Kat Griffith
Two Meditations on the Intrusion of the Divine into My Daily Life by John Andrew Gallery
A Parallel Universe by Jennifer Kavanagh
Channeling Agape for Those on Their Final Journey by Diane DâAngelo
Grounded in God by Michael Wajda
Poetry
(Two Poems for Saint ThérÚse of Lisieux) by Sarah Law
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