On Mothers Day this spring, a small group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers visited Wellsboro Monthly Meeting in Tioga County [鈥
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The Machine in the Garden
Robert Lowing is a member of Lancaster (Pa.) Friends Meeting. He is a retired art professor from Millersville University, where he taught photography for 33 years. He and his wife, Cynthia, have heated their homes with wood, coal, oil, and now, gas, throughout their lifetime.
Posted in: FeaturesAnthropology: Pursuing the Quaker Connection
As a graduate student in dance anthropology at London鈥檚 Roehampton University, I had my first mid鈥恖ife crisis. Actually, make that [鈥
Kat Richter, a member of Trenton (N.J.) Meeting and a former intern at Friends Journal, holds an MA in Dance Anthropology. She recently published "Anthropology with an Agenda: Four Forgotten Dance Anthropologists" in the Journal of Research in Dance Education. She lives in Philadelphia and divides her time between writing and teaching dance.
Posted in: FeaturesA Quaker Reconsiders the Draft
When the Universal Military Training and Service Act expired in June 1973, I was overjoyed, like most Friends in the [鈥
Larry Ingle, a member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting, is a historian and author of First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism and Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation.
Posted in: FeaturesOur New Best Friend?
Written a few weeks after the Inauguration of President Barack Obama last year, this is reprinted with permission from the [鈥
Roger Copeland is a professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College. He is the author of What Is Dance? and Merce Cunningham: The modernizing of Modern Dance.
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The Importance of Noise During Silent Worship by Ben Handy
In Which Today鈥檚 To鈥恉os Become Ta鈥恉ahs! by Kat Griffith
Scenes from a Meetinghouse by Gunilla Norris
A Quaker Response to Gun Violence by Peter Murchison
The Land Remembers: Connecting with Native People through the Land by Paula Palmer
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How to See by Alice Carlton
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Remember that You are Dust and to Dust You Shall Return
Wednesday morning at 6 am my alarm woke me from warm, senseless sleep to face a cold, rainy, and intimidating [鈥
Dan Coppock, a member of Eastern Hills Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, lives and attends worship in West Philadelphia. He is a former Friends Journal intern.
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