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The Cass Corridor neighborhoods on the west end of Midtown Detroit, Michigan, 1990s. Photos © Michael Brozovic, Detroit, Mich.

The Liturgy of Me

By r. scot miller on January 1, 2020

The rhythms of a life stuck in a daily cycle of brokenness and violence.

r. scot miller attends Red Cedar Meeting in Lansing, Mich., with his spouse, Jenn, and their family. He holds graduate degrees from Earlham School of Religion (MA and MDiv) and Grand Valley State University (MSW). He is currently a PhD student at Chicago Theological Seminary.

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Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse

By Yohannes "Knowledge" Johnson on March 1, 2019

When the meetinghouse is on the other side of state prison walls.

Yohannes "Knowledge" Johnson is a member of Bulls Head-Oswego (N.Y.) Meeting and is clerk of Green Haven Preparative Meeting. He was born and raised in Harlem, N.Y. He has been in prison since 1980 and is currently working on a petition in support of executive clemency in New York State.

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Growing and Evolving the Quaker Way

By Gabriel Ehri on August 1, 2018

Our introduction to the August issue on Going Viral with Quakerism

Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.

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Quaker Women’s Theology Conference

By ErinMcDougall on December 1, 2010

When the invitation to write an article for Friends Journal about the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference (PNWQWTC) came [
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Erin McDougall received her Master's of Divinity from Earlham School of Religion and lives on Mayne Island, British Columbia.

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Quaker Women’s Theology Conference

By Erin McDougall on December 1, 2010

When the invitation to write an article for Friends Journal about the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference (PNWQWTC) came [
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Erin McDougall received her Master’s of Divinity from Earlham School of Religion and lives on Mayne Island, British Columbia.

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All Friends’ Conference of 1920

By Elizabeth Cazden on October 1, 2007

Before the 1937 Friends World Conference, Friends from throughout the world and across the various branches of the Religious Society [
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Elizabeth Cazden is a member of Concord (N.H.) Meeting. Her Quaker history research includes Friends in Cuba, independent liberal meetings, and Quaker slave-owners in Rhode Island; see http://www.betsycazden.com.

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Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

By Adam Waxman on July 1, 2007

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be [
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Adam Waxman, a member of Chestnut Hill Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., graduated from the Quaker Leadership Studies Program at Guilford College this year with dual degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies. He is living in Washington, D.C.

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