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Praying for Peace
The holidays are upon us, bringing with them the consideration of how to simplify the way we celebrate the birth…
What Are the Actual Costs of War?
Friends should discuss their differences regarding our Peace Testimony. Yet recent debates in Friends Journal sometimes seem to be a…
Why Simple Living Is Not Enough
It is common practice in addressing the ecological crisis from a religious perspective to present wasteful consumerism as the crux…
What Are We to Do about Our Leaders?
I’m grateful to my monthly meeting that since the beginning of the ’90s it has supported my ministry of religious…
Listening Lessons
Only lunatics hear the voice of God—and saints (who don’t live around here anyway). This I knew to be true…
What is Worship?
Meeting for worship is the heart and center of a Quaker meeting and of being Quaker, but what do Quakers…
Singing among FGC Friends
Quaker disciplines in the mid-19th century criticized instrumental and choral music as frivolous, "worldly" recreation that led Friends away from…
The Friendly Gangstaz Committee
Ladies and Gentlemen, brothers and sisters, Quakaz and Gangstaz: You are witnessing a revolution in the Religious Society of Friends.…
You Are My Sunshine
You Are My Sunshine"—we belt it out every Thursday evening, along with "The Sidewalks of New York," "A Bicycle Built…
The Coffee Crisis and Fair Trade
As economic globalization has accelerated in recent years, and its negative impacts have become more apparent, Friends have been called…
Knitting in Gratitude
My recent prayers have been colorful and, frankly, rather woolly. They are relatively quiet, except for the clickety clack of…
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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