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Pioneering the Possibilities
A year has passed since the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This month there will…
Can Friends Come Together in the Search for Peace?
I am writing this because I was very moved by the articles of Mary Lord and Arthur Rifkin in the…
Essay on War
At the onset of the American Revolution, a group of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Quakers issued a four-page broadside declaring…
Peaceable Communities in a Time of Conflict
Between 1993 and 1996 I lived in Jerusalem, where I did peace work for the Mennonite Central Committee. Recent events…
Authority
In a meeting for worship in the early 1940s a young woman, fairly new to Friends, felt the irresistible urge…
Mystical or Not at All
Throughout history, some men and women have been opened morefully than others to the mystery of creation, to a deeper…
Of Odds and Gods
Three in our meeting community have been struck by tragedy: Sandy Mershon, John Ball, and Laura Murphy. Sandy died after…
Friends Don't Let Friends Drive
I applaud Keith Helmuth’s thorough essay, "Ecological Integrity and Religious Faith" (FJ Aug. 2001), and offer this piece to put…
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My Car Died in Toronto
My car died in Toronto, three days before Christmas, 2000. Desperate to get to Ottawa, my home for over a…
Caroline Balderston Parry
A Global Nonviolent Peaceforce
People are discovering the power of active nonviolence," began seasoned peace activist and Friend David Hartsough at the start of…
The Meaning of "Bless You"
I once wrote a report about what it was like to stand in vigil alone for the initial minutes. On…
Reconsidering "I Approve"
Friends have a unique way of conducting business in which unity of all those assembled is sought on decision items.…
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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