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”Walking the Walk: Greg Woods
In December 1999, 14-year-old Greg Woods attended the "High School Quake," a gathering of Illinois Yearly Meeting youth. Along with…
Survival and resistance: a message from Quaker House, Fayetteville (Ft. Bragg), N.C.
Quakerism was born in a time of revolutionary upheaval. Yet it learned how to survive when the revolution failed and…
Friends Neighborhood Guild: A Quaker Presence in Philadelphia
The Beginnings In 1879, as an expression of concern for their new immigrant neighbors, Friends in the Northern Liberties section…
Reading 50 Years of FRIENDS JOURNAL
I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…
Peace in the World, Peace among Friends
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not…
Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…
Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years
Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…
Making Peace: Telling Truth
From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…
Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword
The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…
Barbara Mays
Barbara Mays, a musician, writer/editor and mother, describes herself first as a Hoosier. She returned to Richmond, Indiana, in the…
Bringing Business into the Light
It is a fair generalization that Quakers, at least U.S. Quakers, view the pursuit of business suspiciously. Jay Marshall said…
Mickey Edgerton
Muriel (Mickey) Wesner Edgerton is openly self-effacing. Punctuated by her distinctive giggle, she characterizes herself as a "blabbermouth," an "extrovert,"…
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