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With Gratitude
I never open an issue of the Journal without feeling a deep sense of gratitude to the many, many individuals…
Monastic Longings: On Laziness, Discipline, and Devotion
“You would make a wonderful nun." Katherine said this to me with a grin, and I acted insulted because I…
25 Years of Quaker Universalism
In May 2008, Quaker Universalist Fellowship turned 25 years old. Many Friends would argue that what we usually call Quaker…
Yo! Are You Amish?
Driving down Philadelphia’s South Street a few years ago, I was asked by a person who had pulled up next…
Twenty-One Tips on Personal Peacemaking
I think we as Quakers spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing peacemaking, but when it comes to…
Sifting Through the Rubble: The 9/11 Controversies
Friends are advised to minister to those in need but also to seek to know the facts and the causes…
A Very Different War: The Story of an Evacuee Sent to the U.S. During World War II
It was only later that we realized how lucky we had been when we arrived in the United States to…
Mushrooms and Poems
I don’t know if it was because the season had been unusually wet, or if it was just the time…
A Non-Quaker's Quaker Perspective
It is ironic that most of us who benefit from a Quaker education are not Quaker. As a middle school…
Finding My Center: Reflections from a Term at Pendle Hill
"Waiting upon the Lord in silence"—what an odd phrase, I thought—when, in my Moravian tradition, you sang praises to God…
Unobstructed Love
The problem with unobstructed love is that it’s rarely understood. Maybe that’s because it does not appear like any other…
One Bad Apple: A Meditation on Organic Applesauce
I spent the week before Labor Day at my family farm in Michigan making applesauce. This has been a custom…
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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