Author Lola Georg reads “The Dwelling Place Within”
FJ Podcast: I had the most remarkable experience the first time I stepped over the threshold of a meetinghouse. The room was quiet, and I knew that I was supposed to sit in silence. I sat down and...
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The Everywhere Oracle: A Guided Journey Through Poetry for an Ensouled World
By Caryl Ann Casbon. Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2015. 112 pages. $17.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. There is a deep part of every human being that seeks meaning and purpose. We search for meaning along many paths:...
View ArticleWeathering the Windfall Contest
What would your meeting do with $1 million? Submit for a chance to win the top prize: $500! Deadline is October 24, 2016. The post Weathering the Windfall Contest appeared first on Friends Journal.
View ArticleQuaker Works October 2016
A semiannual feature highlighting the recent works of Quaker organizations. The post Quaker Works October 2016 appeared first on Friends Journal.
View ArticleRetirement Community
FJ Poetry: "The bridge over waning years is crease with toil" The post Retirement Community appeared first on Friends Journal.
View ArticlePatricia Boughton Palmer
Palmer—Patricia Boughton Palmer, 82, on December 24, 2015, in St. Augustine, Fla., surrounded by her family. Patricia was born on December 30, 1932, in Montclair, N.J., to Amy Boughton and Spencer...
View ArticleHelen Lewis Stanfield
Stanfield—Helen Lewis Stanfield, 91, on September 10, 2016, at Friends Homes in Greensboro, N.C. Helen was born on September 28, 1924, in New York City, to Helen Scarlett and Robert Ernest Lewis,...
View ArticleNews December 2014
Historical marker placed at a Pennsylvania Quaker meeting In a ceremony held on September 28, Upper Dublin (Pa.) Meeting celebrated the unveiling of a historical marker installed on the meeting grounds...
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Reflections on Selma: What Quakers Were Saying in 1965
Theatrical release poster for Selma (distributed by Paramount Pictures). 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches—events that are depicted in the recent film...
View ArticleMilestones June/July 2015
Deaths Ballus—Jane Ott Ballus, 81, of Winston-Salem, N.C., on February 18, 2015, following a brief illness. Jane was born on June 5, 1933, in Edmond, Okla., to Elizabeth Levering and Charles Nelson...
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Main Street Activism and Wall Street Advocacy: Strange Bedfellows?
https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Main-Street-Activism.mp3 Do you know the adage, “slow and steady wins the race”? Well, it played out again recently when PNC Bank announced a...
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Memories of My Father’s Memories
A group of physicists at a 1946 Los Alamos colloquium. Front row, left to right: Norris Bradbury, John Manley, Enrico Fermi, J.M.B. Kellogg. Second row, left to right: Colonel Oliver G. Haywood,...
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Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill
By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia...
View ArticleNews December 2015
Friends join in annual interfaith peace conference The 36th Annual Interfaith Service and Conference for Peace was held in Princeton, N.J., on November 8. The event was organized by the Coalition for...
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Stewardship of the Earth Print
About the illustration from “Peace Is Possible“ Photo courtesy of Arla Patch This work of art is a collaboration between James E. Francis, Penobscot artist and director of cultural and historic...
View ArticleNews March 2016
Quaker art exhibition held in Montana Thirteen Quaker artists were featured in an art exhibition titled “Quaker Artists: An Exhibition of the Quiet Faith.” The exhibit was hosted by Carroll College, a...
View ArticleCourtney Parker Siceloff
Siceloff—Courtney Parker Siceloff, 92, on January 28, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. Courtney was born on January 4, 1922, in Bartlett, Tex., to Mary Margaret Powell and John Andrew Siceloff. As his Methodist...
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Fall Down Seven Times
https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fall-Down-7-Times.mp3FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS | STITCHER Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the...
View ArticleSteven Sears Spencer
Spencer—Steven Sears Spencer, 85, on July 11, 2015, in Santa Fe, N.M. Steve was born on August 27, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Mary and Steven Spencer. He graduated from Swarthmore College, where he...
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Author Chris Mohr reads “A Quaker Space for Our Time”
https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/A-Quaker-Space-for-Our-Time-Chris-Mohr-2016-08.mp3 FJ PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION: ITUNES | DOWNLOAD | RSS | STITCHER FJ Podcast: On October 6, 2015,...
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