By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time experienced schismatic turmoil over the issue of same-sex marriage—or, as Becky Ankeny puts it, “full inclusion of LGBTQ persons in the life of the church.” Although it goes unmentioned in A Leisurely Introduction, it is […]
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A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible-believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church
Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Posted in: Books, Conscience, October 2017 Books
A Quaker’s Passing: My Father’s Way
The answers would only come from being present in the light. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of […]
Shannon Zimmerman is a lifelong Quaker raised in Colorado. Specializing in conflict resolution, she is currently living in Brisbane, Australia, working on a PhD. Her hope is to someday find a way to bring peace into politics. She is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.).
Posted in: Features, The Art of Dying
Forum June/July 2017
Letters from our readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends Journal ever published, going back […]
Posted in: Forum, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms
Learning disruption and resilience from ants and bees.
Barbara Dale graduated from Earlham College in Indiana with a major in biology in 2015. She participated in Quaker Voluntary Service in Philadelphia, Pa., from 2015 to 2016, and currently works in development for a Quaker values-based affordable housing organization. She lives cooperatively with seven humans in West Philadelphia.
Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?
Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?
Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of Special Collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting in the New Association of Friends.
Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership
Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.
Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance are members of the Alternate Pathways to Membership Working Group in New York Yearly Meeting under the care of the Ministry Coordinating Committee. Emily is a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in Manhattan. Jennifer is in the process of moving her membership from South Berkshire Meeting in Great Barrington, Mass., to Fifteenth Street Meeting.
Posted in: Online Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
It Breaks My Heart
The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend’s heart
Kate Pruitt is lab director at a small hospital in North Carolina. After farming organically for 18 years, she returned to her home state to escape the weather and find community. Connecting and exploring the Quaker way beginning in 2005 has opened up her spiritual path.
Posted in: Online Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Forum April 2017
Letters from our readers: upcoming issue announcement, a full year of Trump?!?, teaching peace, Friend without a meeting, kudos to QuakerSpeak. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email […]
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Forum
Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times
Shan Cretin looka back at 100 years of Quaker action and witness.
Shan Cretin will be retiring as general secretary of American Friends Service Committee at the end of August 2017, a post she has held since September 2010. She is currently a member of Santa Monica (Calif.) Meeting and a sojourning member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features
Stumbling Forward toward Racial Justice among Friends
Two Friends share their stories of growing up in a race-defined world and how they’ve been led to work for change.
Lucy Duncan serves American Friends Service Committee as director of Friends Relations and is a storyteller and member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. Noah White is an adjunct professor at Temple University in the College of Public Health. He loves a challenge and the thrill of competition. He also enjoys helping others attain their kinesthetic goals.
Posted in: Features, Race and Anti-Racism
October 2017: Conscience
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Let’s Be Salt by Daniel O. Snyder
An AFSC Defense of the Rights of Conscience by Daniel A. Seeger
Why Talk About Conscientious Objection with Youth? by Curt Torell
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Online Feature: Interview with Timothy Snyder
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