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Thank You, Friends
I am continuously amazed and incredibly grateful for the support we receive here at Friends Publishing Corporation for the ministry…
Gun Violence Can Be Reduced
I wish to express my appreciation for the editorial, "Who is really to blame?" (FJ June, Among Friends, on the…
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience
Hideko Tamura is a second soprano with Rogue Valley Peace Choir, a retired social worker, an author, and a survivor…
Filming the Life of Gobi Women
Leading, 1997 As I sit in meditation, I see single women lliving a nomadic life—women using wool from their sheep…
God: The Ultimate Vacuum Trap
Yesterday I was cold. Not surprising, as we live at 6,000 feet altitude in an inadequately insulated house with no…
‘How Is Thee’: Musings on Ironies and Self Justification Among Friends
For a long time I have had a back-burner interest in the evolution of the use of thee, thou, and…
Useful Fictions
I am a scientist, an atheist, and a skeptic who does not believe in any form of the supernatural. Nonetheless,…
A Frog Fable
Frogs from near and far gather at the edge of Quaker Pond adjacent to the old meetinghouse, croaking loudly as…
An Eleventh Commandment?
At an interfaith conference on "Waters of Life, Sacred and Profaned" held in April 2007 at Saint Michael’s College in…
Summer Doldrums Blown Away
Even knowing from experience that "the Spirit can live in the jails," as George Fox once remarked, there are hot…
Credo
I believe there is an ultimate reality that makes existence possible and continuously sustains creation. At the human level, we…
Explaining Windows to an Ant
For me, the Earth is an unchanging solid foundation. The sun rises in the East, travels across the sky, and…
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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