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Features

Giving from a Peaceful Place

Finding a balance in our work. Lisa Smith

News, September 2016

News from Friends at the FGC Gathering, British Quakers in business, and the Friends Committee on Scouting.
Online Features

Quakers Respond to Orlando Shooting (Updated)

Around the web and within Friends organizations and communities, Quakers are responding to the tragic news of a mass shooting… FJ Staff
Features

Being Autistic at Summer Gathering

An overload of auditory and visual stimuli threatens a Friend's participation. Veronica Berg

Meant to Be For Some Purpose

I was 47 when I drove four other rabbis in my teal Windstar minivan from Philadelphia to the Catskills for…

A Friend Among the Sisters

A chronically ill Friend takes a vacation among the nuns

The Sabbath Year at Central Philadelphia Meeting

“The Sabbath year has been unfolding so wonderfully. . . . I feel like we are growing and sprouting individually…

Gifts of a Weekend in Silence

I don’t know exactly what attracted me to the idea of a silent retreat last April at Woolman Hill in…