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Spirituality and Politics
There has been discussion among Friends about the role of political and other worldly concerns in the life of the…
Arden Buck
Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…
Ann Walton Sieber
Nudges and Leadings
The interior presence of Christ moved within us and centered and renewed our dispersed lives and from time to time…
Marguerite Reiss Kern
The Sabbath Year at Central Philadelphia Meeting
“The Sabbath year has been unfolding so wonderfully. . . . I feel like we are growing and sprouting individually…
Patricia McBee
Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years
Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…
Laura Melly
Travel as Sacred Journey
As Quakers, we are called to see that of God in each person. And what if the person is the…
Valerie Brown
The WTO Meeting in Cancun: Failure or Success?
The Quaker Presence in Cancún In September 2003, thousands of government officials from 148 countries descended on the Mexican beach…
Phillip Berryman
In the Wake of Hurricane Isabel
The most powerful experience I had on a Friends Disaster Service (FDS) trip to Hyde County, N.C., was also the…
Evan Welkin
An Unprogrammed Friend Discovers the Spirit in Preaching
For most of my life as an unprogrammed Friend, I could never have imagined my present job title. I am…
Chris Parker
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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