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Christ-Centeredness & Quaker Identity
I have a memory of a member of my monthly meeting responding to the news that some meetings have pastors,…
Neighbors East and West – This Time Iran
In 1986 a group mostly of Quakers from Richmond, Indiana, were walking together through the Kremlin on their last night…
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,…
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