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Not One Quaker Experience but Many
Among Friends: Our introduction to the December issue on Quakers and Christianity.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and Christianity
A Space for Doubt
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 ChristianityMilestones October 2014
Births, marriages, and deaths.
Books August 2014
Book reviews of “But Who Do You Say That I Am?” by Douglas Gwyn, “Gathering the Silence” by Eileen Kinch […]
Posted in: August 2014, Quaker Book Reviews
Books November 2013
Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the […]
What Love Requires: Community and the Challenge of Diversity
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. This article was adapted from a plenary talk at the 2013 Friends General Conference Gathering in Greenley, Colorado.
Posted in: Features, September 2013April Forum 2012
Fetishization of biblical passages I was glad to see David Zarembka’s letter about African Friends in your February issue. I […]
Posted in: Forum
What Are Schools For?
Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of […]
Thomas B. Farquhar, the head of Westtown School, is a member of Westtown (Pa.) meeting.
Posted in: Features, January 2001
Features
I Think I Understand Now by Andrew Huff
Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment by Joe McHugh
Supporting Recovery Among Friends by Johanna Jackson
Confronting the Challenge of Drugs by Eric E. Sterling
The Liturgy of Me by r. scot miller
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I Met God on a Train Last Week by Elizabeth Bajjalieh
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