This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.
Tag Archives | QVS
Bearing False Witness
Sometimes people aren’t who they seem.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass., in 2015–16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Names and details have been altered for privacy.
Posted in: Features, February 2019
News, February 2019
British Friends and Palestine announcment; new directors at Quaker Voluntary Service and Belize Friends Ministries.
Posted in: February 2019, News
Life in a Box
The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in 2015–16 in Boston, Mass. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Quaker Works April 2018
A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy […]
Posted in: Healing, Quaker Works
Quilting as Ministry
Quilting as healing at a Quaker Voluntary Service house.
Kayla Schneider-Smith is a 2016-17 Portland QVS fellow who has served both with New City Initiative, an organization that aims to end the cycle of homelessness through faith community involvement, and Urban Gleaners, a food re-purposing organization that fights childhood hunger in Oregon.
Posted in: Features, February 2018
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, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Spiritual Nurture in a Fix‐it Culture
Gardening helped a disillusioned seminarian open to the deepness of questions without answers.
Sarah Klatt-Dickerson is the Portland coordinator for Quaker Voluntary Service. She’s also an artist and poet, a growing listener, and amateur gardener. As a part of her work with QVS, she gets to spend time with Liberal and Evangelical Friends in the Pacific Northwest.
Posted in: Features, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training
Let’s Grow Together: Anicka Meyers
Profiles of those new to Friends.
Trevor Johnson is the editorial fellow at Friends Journal through Quaker Voluntary Service's second-year Alumni Fellows program. Do you know someone we should interview? Reach us at [email protected]
Posted in: Let's Grow Together, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training
Let’s Grow Together Interview with Maire Moriarty
Interviews with those relatively new to Friends.
Trevor Johnson is the editorial fellow at Friends Journal through Quaker Voluntary Service’s second-year Alumni Fellows program. Do you know someone we should interview? Reach us at [email protected]
Posted in: February 2016, Let's Grow Together
Features
Life at Lumakanda Friends Church by David Zarembka
Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House by Kumah Drah
Leadings of the Spirit by Rommel Roberts, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth
Empowering Women against Gender‐based Violence by Parfaite Ntahuba
The Place of God’s Own Choosing by Eden Grace
Quaker Christianity in Kenya by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
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Quaker Silence in Community by Pat Meehan
Spelunking: What My Father Taught Me About the Light by Geoff Knowlton
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