Religious Education

Follow the Child

I am an introspective kind of Friend who considers every decision carefully. It takes me days to mull over a…

Being a Friendly Adult Presence in the Lives of Young Friends: What Would Tom Fox Do?

My 15-year-old son Jonathan dragged his tired body in the door, trailing his sleeping bag and pillow, exhausted but with…

Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir

Hanna: The Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir was started during a now-annual First-day school fundraiser for a school in El…

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker

You can raise a Quaker without First-day school, without lesson plans, even without figuring out "what every Quaker child needs…

Friendly Partners Program

When our Quaker children become teenagers our meetings lose touch with them. They seem to disappear into the abyss of…

Forging the Ties that Bind: Supporting Quaker Youth

I have often wondered why I alone of my three siblings am still active in Quaker circles. We all attended…

Facilitating Interreligious Weddings

Since the fall of 1989, I have been involved as a kind of facilitator for three weddings, held in the…

”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…

Meeting for Soup

I rarely help out with First-day school, but they needed a substitute one Sunday, so I volunteered. In the days…

The Quaker sweat lodge: a response

The Quaker sweat lodge has been a very powerful and transformative experience for many young Friends. Indeed, there are a…

''Visions of Quaker Ministry

I’m writing here on the experiences I’ve had growing up as a liberal Quaker in the North and what I’ve…

Quaker Kids Say the Darnedest Things

Teaching the young ones in our meeting, I think often of Art Linkletter’s show that I watched when I was…
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