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Where the Light Comes to Meet Us

Walls do not define our belonging. Leticia Garcia Tiwari
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The Quakers of Alice Elliott Dark’s Fellowship Point

A Friends Journal interview with the author of a new novel featuring two Quaker protagonists. Sharlee DiMenichi
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Swarthmore College Peace Library Digitizes Files on Women Peace Activists

To spotlight the work of female peace activists in the United States, staff of Swarthmore College’s Peace Collection library have… Sharlee DiMenichi
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Soul Food Reimagined

Making room for plant-based eaters at family gatherings. Deborah B. Ramsey
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QuakerSpeak, May 2023

Making my own Quaker-adjacent community. Rebecca Hamilton-Levi
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Berks County immigrant detention center closing, nearly all detainees released

On November 30, 2022, Berks County, Pa. officials announced that the ICE agency will end its contract with the county. FJ News Editors
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Hog Maw Epiphanies

“Mama and Daddy were farmers in Tennessee,” my friend shared... R. Scot Miller

Mary Jane Gray

Gray—Mary Jane Gray, 97, on January 23, 2022, in Corvallis, Ore., where she had been living for more than 30… Staff

Susan Jane Gardner

Gardner—Susan Jane Gardner, 76, on January 2, 2022, peacefully, four days before her seventy-seventh birthday, in Charlotte, N.C. Susan was… Staff

Rose Law Miller

Miller—Rose Law Miller, 100, on June 7, 2021, peacefully, at Kendal at Hanover, a Quaker retirement community in Hanover, N.H.… Staff
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A young couple with a secret endure a long ocean passage. Kate Bahlke Hornstein
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Mexico’s Matamoros Meeting

Members of Matamoros Meeting pray that God can use them. They are living out that prayer—and example—online and in person.  Elizabeth Saunders
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