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Earlham School of Religion
My Journey among Friends
I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, "sensitive" child, I didn’t…
Vibrant Meetings Grow the Religious Society of Friends
In 2007, Friends World Committee for Consultation reported 35,413 unprogrammed Friends, about one-tenth of 1 percent of the U.S. population.…
Thank You, Friends
I am continuously amazed and incredibly grateful for the support we receive here at Friends Publishing Corporation for the ministry…
Features
Why Young Friends Need Elders—and Why They Need Us
To be a Young Friend is to be in transition—to be in a time of great possibility, uncertainty, and formation.…
Micah Bales
”Walking the Walk: Greg Woods
In December 1999, 14-year-old Greg Woods attended the "High School Quake," a gathering of Illinois Yearly Meeting youth. Along with…
Friends' Attitudes toward Business in the USA
Unprogrammed liberal Friends today seem publicly almost uniformly negative about most business activity. I have been to talks at Pendle…
Does Your Meeting Need a Bill of Rights?
About ten years ago, West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting was shattered by a case of sexual harassment, where a respected member…
Owning the Lord’s Prayer
In 1997, my wife and I decided on a radical midlife career change. Over the next year, we quit our…
Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…
Making Peace: Telling Truth
From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…
The Journey to Answering That of God in Everyone
I’m probably one of the few Friends who has an aversion to the term "that of God in every one."…
Barbara Mays
Barbara Mays, a musician, writer/editor and mother, describes herself first as a Hoosier. She returned to Richmond, Indiana, in the…
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