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Christmas Reflections
My husband is fond of kidding me about how crammed my dresser drawers always seem to be. In fact, they…
The Wounding and Healing of the Human Spirit
Sometimes when I’m tired—almost too tired—I can’t sleep. I want more food for the world and less suffering. I feel…
Tree Trust
I’m sitting under the dense canopy of a Mexican elderberry tree. There are two such trees in the front yard…
Liberal Quaker Journal Publishing to 1955
One of the reasons that historians like Quakers, and why historians have given Quakers attention out of all proportion to…
Not Another Holiday Letter
2004 was an unusual year. I wrote a Christmas letter on time. After a year’s hiatus from writing a Christmas…
The Father
"How is it that ye sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?" "And…
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Christmas Light
Photo by kwasny222 Last year I was not in the mood for the Friends’ holiday party, though it is usually…
Eleanor Wright
Christmas – Every Day or Never?
No doubt an old-fashioned Quaker Christmas was a cozy time according to some traditions or records or family memories, but…
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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