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I Am Not a Religious Person

The literalness of religion vs. the litheness of spirituality. Sarah Pennock Neuville
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Visual Ministry in Response to War

Review of PAFA’s World War I and American Art Signe Wilkinson

Among Friends: Convicted Friends

Our introduction to the issue. Martin Kelley
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Quaker Teachers Aren’t Just at Friends Schools

A former Friends School teacher decides to let his life speak in a public school. Mike Mangiaracina
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Quaker Family Values on Giving

Charity begins in the home. Kathleen Costello Malin
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Why I Give

Giving is a response of gratefulness to God for life and its blessings. Mike Moyer
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Author Paul Buckley reads “Why Quakers Stopped Voting”

FJ Podcast: In 1762, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting approved a minute stating: “Liberty of conscience being . . . essential to… Paul Buckley
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Author Gretchen Castle reads “What Unites Us”

FJ Podcast: Having grown up in a Quaker family, the daughter of a pastor in Indiana and Iowa (Friends United… Gretchen Castle
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Author Elaine Green reads “The Quaker Family”

FJ Podcast: The experience of attending the plenary in Peru was both uplifting and comforting to me as a member… Elaine Green
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FGC Gathering 2016 Photos

Scenes from this year's Quaker gathering in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Photography by Arthur Fink, Piper Lewis, and John Margerum

Beatrice Ridgway Carson

Carson—Beatrice Ridgway Carson, 95, of Oakford, Pa., on May 16, 2016. Bea was born on September 5, 1920, in Bucks… Staff

Harold Cedric Field

Field—Harold Cedric Field, 97, on August 7, 2015. Harold was born on December 23, 1917, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Myrtle… Staff
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