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Not One Quaker Experience but Many

By Gabriel Ehri on December 1, 2018

Among Friends: Our introduction to the December issue on Quakers and Christianity.

Gabriel Ehri is聽executive director of聽Friends Journal.


Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and Christianity
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Author Jeff Rasley first came to Indianpolis's First Friends Meeting seeking fiscal sponsorship for small-scale development projects in the Basa area of Nepal His first experience of a Quaker worship service le him to think First Friends might fill another, more personal desire.

A Space for Doubt

By Jeff Rasley on December 1, 2018

When religious services are stripped of doctrinal claims, doubters and skeptics can participate with greater integrity.

Jeff Rasley is a retired attorney who serves on the boards of six nonprofit organizations. He has taught classes at Butler and Marian Universities about culturally sensitive development in agrarian communities. He is a regular attender of Indianapolis (Ind.) First Friends Meeting.


Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
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Milestones October 2014

By Staff on October 1, 2014

Births, marriages, and deaths. 馃敀 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please [鈥


Posted in: Milestones, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
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Gathered

Books November 2013

By Staff on November 1, 2013

Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the [鈥


Posted in: December 2012: Hospitality, November 2013: Books and Writing, Quaker Book Reviews
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What Love Requires: Community and the Challenge of Diversity

By George Schaefer on September 1, 2013

Community and the challenge of diversity.

George Schaefer, a licensed clinical social worker, serves Philadelphia Yearly Meeting as its care and aging coordinator. A former clerk of Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, George is a member of Abington (Pa.) Meeting. He lives with his wife Georgette in Glenside, Pa.聽This article was adapted from a plenary talk at the 2013 Friends General Conference Gathering in Greenley, Colorado.


Posted in: Features, September 2013
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April Forum 2012

By on March 1, 2012

Fetishization of biblical passages I was glad to see David Zarembka鈥檚 letter about African Friends in your February issue. I [鈥


Posted in: Forum
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What Are Schools For?

By Thomas B. Farquhar on July 10, 2007

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of [鈥

Thomas B. Farquhar, the head of Westtown School, is a member of Westtown (Pa.) meeting.


Posted in: Features, January 2001
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