Personalities

Carved in Stone

When Karin Sprague’s father-in-law died suddenly in 1996 she knew what she would do with the rest of her life.…

Barbara Mays

Barbara Mays, a musician, writer/editor and mother, describes herself first as a Hoosier. She returned to Richmond, Indiana, in the…

Demie Kurz

With Demie Kurz, conversation about life, family, work, and beliefs is laced with phrases of feeling—"I love . . .…

To Friends Journal Readers: A Response

I am grateful to have been able to follow the debate over my remarks that were printed in Friends Journal…

Chris and Olga Ahrens

When we married," Ollie says, "we agreed from the start that we wouldn’t build our life on owning things." It’s…

Be Cool, Not Hot

To better understand an adult’s behavior, psychologists often investigate the individual’s childhood experience. Events that take place in the early…

Joe Franko

Joe Franko became a Quaker through a brief friendship with Rick, a conscientious objector he met in Vietnam in the…

Courage Then and Now

As a member of that generation of Friends who used World War II as a springboard for the growth and…

Tom and Anne Moore

I visited with the Moores in their compact apartment (which they share with Anne’s large loom!) at the Hickman, a…

John Munson

John Munson describes himself as "a Quaker, a Pacific Northwesterner, and an internationalist. I’ve been a lawyer for more than…

AVP: An Interview with Steve Angell

Stephen L. Angell was an early participant and continues to be active in the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a…

My Father's Peace

I am a member of the baby-boom generation, born after the GIs and G-gals came home from the Second World…
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