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Sparks and Spaces: Lived Experience in Friends Schools
We sit in circles. God is everywhere. There are no right answers. —Kindergartner’s response to parents’ question: What is Quaker…
Quaker Committees? Witness for Support of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On September 13, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General…
Congratulations, Earlham School of Religion
Unprogrammed Friends are fond of saying that we’ve abolished the laity and each of us is called to a ministry.…
Learning about the Real World of Ministry
Any change in one’s life has the potential to be transformative. Going to Earlham School of Religion was certainly so…
A Family Responds to Suspicionless Drug Testing
he whole issue started in the spring of 2006 when I was a freshman in high school. The school district…
Neighbors East and West – This Time Iran
In 1986 a group mostly of Quakers from Richmond, Indiana, were walking together through the Kremlin on their last night…
My Journey among Friends
I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, "sensitive" child, I didn’t…
Yo! Are You Amish?
Driving down Philadelphia’s South Street a few years ago, I was asked by a person who had pulled up next…
Convergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’
Have you ever sensed that the earliest Quakers had a fire that seems to be missing now? What do we…
Features
Why Young Friends Need Elders—and Why They Need Us
To be a Young Friend is to be in transition—to be in a time of great possibility, uncertainty, and formation.…
Micah Bales
Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends
Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be…
American Friends Service Committee after 90 Years
We seek to know where the Spirit is calling us to be in a particular place and time. —Quaker aphorism…
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