I talked with Jack Tripp, who teach­es ninth and eleventh grade Eng­lish at the same Quak­er school he him­self attend­ed a decade or so ago. With a reli­gious tra­di­tion as fierce­ly anti-creedal as ours — and one that has mor­phed and evolved into var­i­ous con­tra­dic­to­ry forms — how do we describe our­selves? The prob­lem is height­ened in a Quak­er school set­tings, where only a frac­tion of stu­dents will be Quak­er them­selves. Jack­’s arti­cle, Toward a Quak­er Pedi­gree, is in the online edi­tion of this mon­th’s Friends Jour­nal.

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Also, I don’t think I ever shared last mon­th’s Quak­er Talk pod­cast inter­view with Michelle Downey, “How a Quak­er Meet­ing Wel­comes Mil­i­tary Fam­i­lies.” I also wrote the intro­duc­tion to the Octo­ber issue, “Restor­ing Our Parts of the World.”