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Money as a Mutual Blessing

By Lola Georg on October 1, 2018

Moving from anxiety and greed to milk and honey.

Lola Georg attends Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. Previously, she had an extensive career in financial management for nonprofits, including Quaker organizations. She conducts workshops about the spirituality of money (spiritualityofmoney.com). She loves Viv Hawkins, and they live in Philadelphia.

Posted in: Features, Meetings and Money

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Forum, September 2018

By Staff on September 1, 2018

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Forum, September 2018

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Writing Opp: Quakers and Christianity (due 9/17)

By Martin Kelley on August 7, 2018

It’s a series of questions that has dogged Friends since we did away with clergy and started calling baptism a […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk

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Forum, January 2018

By Staff on January 1, 2018

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Forum, Quaker Lifestyles

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We Are Pilgrims on a Journey

By Jay O'Hara on January 1, 2018

A faithful response to climate change.

Jay O'Hara is a member of Sandwich (Mass.) Meeting, and a co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, climatedisobedience.org. The NEYM Prophetic Climate Action Working Group consists of Alice Grendon, Brian Drayton, Dunan Herman-Parks, Jay O'Hara, John Humphries, Katherine Fisher, Louis Cox, Meg Klepack, Minga Claggett-Borne, Peter Blood-Patterson, Ruah Swennerfeldt, and Wendy Schlotterbeck.

Posted in: Faith and Practice, Quaker Lifestyles

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The Heart of This Crazy Commitment

By Chris Morrissey on December 1, 2017

Recommitting to a Quaker truth.

Chris Morrissey still holds membership in South Bend (Ind.) Meeting and came to Friends in Santa Monica (Calif.) Meeting. He currently attends several meetings in the Portland, Ore., area. His first book, Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq: Priestly or Prophetic?, comes out next spring.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features

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Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

By Gwen Gosney Erickson on November 1, 2017

Queries for Friends to consider as they discern how to maintain a meeting library.

Gwen Gosney Erickson is the Friends Historical Collection Librarian and College Archivist at Guilford College where she is a member of Hege Library’s leadership team. She is a member of Friendship Meeting and currently serves as clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative). She lives in Greensboro, N.C.

Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries

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A Gathering in Hope

By In Brief Compiled by Karie Firoozmand on October 1, 2017

By Philip Gulley. Center Street, 2016. 258 pages. $24/hardcover; $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I had the pleasure of hearing Phil Gulley offer […]

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Ah, Go Fly a Kite!

By Charles G. Jones on September 1, 2017

Paper, glue, wind, and metaphors at the FGC Gathering.

Charles “Chuck” Jones is a member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting. Chattanooga is where he flies kites and lives with his wife. He is a retired math teacher who is a woodworker and blacksmith. This past May, he became a graduate of the School of the Spirit.

Posted in: Features, September 2017

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It Breaks My Heart

By Kate Pruitt on June 1, 2017

The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend’s heart

Kate Pruitt is lab director at a small hospital in North Carolina. After farming organically for 18 years, she returned to her home state to escape the weather and find community. Connecting and exploring the Quaker way beginning in 2005 has opened up her spiritual path.

Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Online Features

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