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A Quaker Reconsiders the Draft
When the Universal Military Training and Service Act expired in June 1973, I was overjoyed, like most Friends in the…
Hidden Springs: A Quaker Farm Community in the Mid-20th Century
Technically, my parents did not own a house until after Dad retired, and even then, it was probably mortgaged. For…
Dispelling Some Myths about Hiroshima
As part of my semester abroad in Tokyo, Japan, my study program took our group of U.S. exchange students on…
Torture and the War System
Thanks for John Calvi’s Viewpoint “A Perfect Spiritual Work” (FJ Aug.). I was inspired and stimulated by his discussion of…
Wielding Thor’s Hammer: What It Means to Write as Ministry
According to an old Norse legend of the early days in the time before this time, the god Thor patrolled…
Quaker Relief during the Spanish Civil War
One gray morning in early February, a small group of Friends was finding its way to an encounter with 70…
The 2005 Friends General Conference Gathering
There were over 1,500 Friends, arriving in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the Virginia Tech campus on July 2, in blazing heat.…
War on Whom?
We live in troubling times.
Peace Is Patriotic
So we're at war.
Spiritual Materialism
A Quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament. —Emily Dickinson Not long ago,…
Father for a Day
When I first realized that my journey from Catholicism to Quakerism had reached a point of no return, one of…
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