by Charlie Janney | Dec 22, 2025 | Our Meeting
I’m writing in remembrance of my friend Anne Remley. I met Anne in 1988, when I moved to Ann Arbor for social work grad school. Ann Arbor has a large vibrant Friends Meeting. When I introduced myself at meeting, Anne went out of her way to make me feel welcome. Later,...
by Charlie Janney | Apr 8, 2025 | Our Meeting
I’m writing as Liaison between BFM and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). This organization has offices (and centers of volunteer activity) throughout America, plus a number of similar outposts worldwide, including in the besieged city of Rammalah in Gaza....
by Charlie Janney | Aug 2, 2018 | Our Meeting
Dear Friends, This blog post is prepared for Friends interested in the current situation in Nicaragua. This Spring the Ortega government proposed some relatively modest changes to its Social Security (Health Care) and Pension programs. As these changes would have...
by Charlie Janney | Dec 8, 2016 | Our Meeting
Some may be put off by this question, as Buddhism is usually thought of as a religion. But Buddha was primarily a student of human nature, as were two other sages of antiquity, Lao Tzu and Confucius. As with these other men, a religion was created in Buddha’s name....
by Charlie Janney | Aug 5, 2016 | Our Meeting
Dear Friends, I composed this Open Letter to Meeting late last year, but it could not be shared easily until recently. As I’ve mentioned during Meeting, the Morbidity and Mortality (suffering and death) caused by Depression world wide is second only to that caused by...
