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A Change and an Award
When my Friends Journal arrives these days, I greet it with a new sense of awe. After just over a…
Heifers and Pencils
I just read an article in Christian Science Monitor entitled "Help for Uganda’s Farmers: A Heifer to Start a Family"…
Ecological Integrity and Religious Faith
There is a growing recognition that the state of Earth’s ecological integrity is not just one more concern to be…
Serving God and Caesar
A letter to a Friend about 21 years in the Foreign Service Dear Nick, I joined the Foreign Service 21…
No Creed Is Not the Same as No Theology
A Short Course on the Theology of Friends It has long interested me that members of unprogrammed meetings of the…
Protest Walk Gone Awry
It was a hot, early fall afternoon, and we had stopped near the U.S./Canadian border to get gas and refresh…
An Open and Affirming Community
Sixty-two of us gathered in prayerful silence. This was the culmination of our searching, of seven long years of workshops…
Traveling in the Ministry – But Not on Horseback
It’s the 21st century, and we Quakers are still doing it, traveling in pairs great distances to nurture small and…
Succession to the Clerkship
I am learning to clerk. Meetings give their clerks the power and authority necessary to function. This is something we…
Reading Minutes Aloud
A characteristic practice at meetings for business of Friends General Conference’s Central Committee is reading the minutes out loud to…
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Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist
April 1, 2024
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
April 1, 2024
Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
April 1, 2024