Rev. Tamara Torres McGovern (she/her) is both a person of faith and a queer woman. She found her way to ministry following a path which included spiritual formation as a yoga instructor, holistic cook, folk musician, and massage therapist. She has a…
Sylvia Rivera was one of the earliest and most influential transgender rights activists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969. She was close friends with Marsha P. Johnson, and spent almost her entire life fighting for civil…
The annual Swarthmore Lecture to the Religious Society of Friends was established by the Woodrooke Study Centre in 1907. Ken Barnes' 1960 lecture was entitled "The Creative Imagination."
The August 15th edition of The Advocate includes a detailed account of events around the U.S. raising funds for the New Orleans Memorial Fund as well as the slow progress of the official investigation.
The Sunday Times reviewed the report on the front page the day before it was released. A religion commentary inside the paper predicted that the report would stir up a "hullabaloo" among rank-and-file Quakers.