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Seeking Common Ground
Four years ago, when the new millennium began, our future seemed challenging but also promising. In 2001, the events of…
Building Community under Fire
To understand the Friendly testimonies, including equality, simplicity, and community, it is important to get to know some of the…
Making Peace: Telling Truth
From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…
See No Evil
Before I tell you that I don’t see anything to be gained using the word "evil" to describe any part…
With Malice toward None, Charity toward All
For a while after Jack Powelson’s article entitled "Why I am Leaving Quakers" (FJ April 2002) came out, a number…
For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and…
Intersecting Circles
A number of years ago, while teaching at Harvard Divinity School, Henry Cadbury encountered a distraught former student who had…
The Benches of Cobscook (Maine) Meeting
There are five antique Quaker benches at Cobscook (Maine) Meeting. At this point they are in various stages of disrepair.…
Epiphany
Now that the seasonal Epiphany is behind us for another calendar year, it is interesting to think of the meaning…
Sardines: A Meditation on Latecomers
My favorite variation of hide-and-seek, learned in one of the many towns I lived in as a child, was called…
To the Desk Clerk Out There – Thank You
My first two years at college in the early 1970s were more like Apollo 13 than Apollo 11: I realized…
Peacemaking: Public and Private
In addressing this topic, I turn to the theme of a workshop/retreat with Bennington (Vt.) Meeting in August 2002, as…
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A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends
March 1, 2024
The Fundamental Principle of Quaker Spirituality: Light in the Conscience
March 1, 2024
Inner Healing, Inner Peace: A Quaker Perspective
March 1, 2024