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Finding Hope
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27) Anyone in my family can tell you…
Susan Corson-Finnerty
U.S. Exceptionalism vs. Human Solidarity
The attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon has generated a range of responses…
Keith Helmuth
Raising CO Consciousness in Our Youth
Like everyone, we are touched close to home and deep in our hearts by the War on Terrorism. But as…
Alica Carlton and Curt Torell
Prayer, Healing, and a Miracle
Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying…
Marcelle Martin
Inward Light and Outward Light
When people get together for a business meeting in a non-Quaker setting, they analyze each problem, share the best solutions…
Paul Buckley
Confessions of a Nontheistic Friend
"I have found profit in tracing the word [worship] back to its Old English root, weorthscipe, meaning worthship. In the…
David E. Drake
Who's Been Reading George Fox's Journal?
I have been using the edition of George Fox’s Journal edited by John L. Nickalls for years, and it was…
Newton Garver
Trying to See God
I climbed the mimosa tree in my backyard looking for God. My ten-year-old mind had latched on to the words…
Mary Ann Downey
The Christiana Resistance
In the early morning hours of September 11, 1851—ten years before the Civil War and exactly 150 years to the…
Brenda Walker Beadenkopf
Demie Kurz
With Demie Kurz, conversation about life, family, work, and beliefs is laced with phrases of feeling—"I love . . .…
Kara Newell
Freedom and Responsibility
I didn’t realize that blue hair would be such a problem. It was the campers’ hair, not mine after all.…
Tristan Wilson
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The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth
June 1, 2026
Is Peace Possible?
June 1, 2026
Turning Toward the Victim: The Bible, Sacred Violence, and the End of Scapegoating in Quaker Perspective
June 1, 2026