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Reflections on the Witness of Tom Fox
It seems easier somehow to confront anger within my heart than it is to confront fear. But if Jesus and…
Survival and resistance: a message from Quaker House, Fayetteville (Ft. Bragg), N.C.
Quakerism was born in a time of revolutionary upheaval. Yet it learned how to survive when the revolution failed and…
No Words
In November 2005, Tom Fox, a member of Langley Hill (Va.) Meeting, and three other members of the Christian Peacemaker…
Remembering Agnes: A Lesson in Nonviolence
Whenever I try to trace back my faith in that of God in every one, and the power of nonviolence,…
Friends Neighborhood Guild: A Quaker Presence in Philadelphia
The Beginnings In 1879, as an expression of concern for their new immigrant neighbors, Friends in the Northern Liberties section…
The Three Gems
A famous Buddhist prayer is known as the Three Gems: I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in…
The Cross and the Cuckoo’s Egg
I have followed with interest the rise, among U.S. churches, of scapegoating. Men who love men, women who love women,…
The Lord's Prayer Revisited
In February 2005, Friends Journal published an article by Paul Buckley, "Owning the Lord’s Prayer," in which he offered his…
Of Faith and Boots
I am a mother with two young boys, a job, and meeting responsibilities in addition to other volunteer work. So…
I Was Blind, But Now I See
Many are familiar with the Indian fable of the blind men and the elephant, immortalized by the Fritz Eichenberg woodcut…
How Do You Recognize a Divine Revelation?
Two years ago, Baltimore Yearly Meeting published a booklet, A Quaker Response to Christian Fundamentalism, which described beliefs typical of…
Quaker Truth-Seeking and the Unitary Presidency
As citizens, many of us in the U.S. are uncomfortable with a president who claims powers that place him above…
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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