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Meet Rebecca Hamilton‐Levi, the new producer of QuakerSpeak

By Gail Whiffen on February 1, 2020

Rebecca joined the Friends Publishing team in December 2019, and will be taking on the duties of producing the QuakerSpeak […]

Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal. 

Posted in: February 2019
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Continuing a Quaker Affordable Housing Legacy

By Eric Malm on November 1, 2019

Friends past and present working on housing access in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Eric Malm is a professor of economics and business management at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pa., a member Norristown (Pa.) Meeting, and a member of Abington Quarter’s Home and Care Committee. More information about the meeting’s housing project can be found at norristownfriends.org.

Posted in: Gambling, Witness
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Evergreen Worship Group circa 2006. Photo courtesy of the author.

Releasing One Another for Faithfulness

By Marcelle Martin on January 1, 2018

Exploring a vision for faithful communities.

Marcelle Martin, a member of Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting, is the author of Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey. She leads workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings. Currently she is the core teacher for the Nurturing Worship, Faith & Faithfulness program at the Woolman Hill Quaker retreat center in Deerfield, Mass. Visit her website at awholeheart.com.

Posted in: Quaker Lifestyles
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Mary Katherine McKinney Miller

By Staff on August 1, 2017

Miller—Mary Katherine McKinney Miller, 69, on April 17, 2016, of pancreatic cancer, under hospice care at home in Philadelphia, Pa. […]

Posted in: Milestones, The Art of Dying
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Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms

By Barbara Dale on June 1, 2017

Learning disruption and resilience from ants and bees.

Barbara Dale graduated from Earlham College in Indiana with a major in biology in 2015. She participated in Quaker Voluntary Service in Philadelphia, Pa., from 2015 to 2016, and currently works in development for a Quaker values-based affordable housing organization. She lives cooperatively with seven humans in West Philadelphia.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Amachi: Faith‐Based Mentoring to Children of Prisoners

By Friends Journal contributor on August 1, 2004

Amachi is a national initiative to provide caring, committed mentors to the children of prisoners.

Posted in: Features
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