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Love in the Time of Coronavirus

By Gabriel Ehri on April 1, 2020

Carrying on with the care of our meetings.

Gabriel Ehri is Executive Director. [email protected]

Posted in: Among Friends, The State of Quaker Institutions

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Facing Hard Truths

By Robin Mohr on April 1, 2020

What can Friends learn from the hospice movement?

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

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Quaker Schools Transforming the World

By Deborra Sines Pancoe and Elisabeth Torg on April 1, 2020

Friends schools face the challenges of societal changes.

Deborra Sines Pancoe is Friends Council on Education’s associate director and a member of Abington (Pa.) Meeting. Elisabeth Torg is director of development and communications for Friends Council on Education, a kindred spirit of Quakers, and a parent of two Friends school graduates.

Posted in: Features, The State of Quaker Institutions

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Why I Identify as Quaker

By Kurt H. Parkum on April 1, 2020

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

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Interview with Jessica Metheringham, creator of Disarm the Base

By Gail Whiffen on April 1, 2020

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

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The Workings of the Spirit of God Within: The Offices of Christ

By Reviewed by Rausie Hobson. on April 1, 2020

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

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