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Bottled Water Is Not a Blessing
Water is life, not a commodity in plastic called a blessing. North Carolinians and other planet residents are challenged to…
Concerned about Israel and/or Palestine: Perhaps We Are Part of the Problem
In October 2008, I traveled to the West Bank on behalf of Friends World Committee for Consultation-Europe and Middle East…
Meeting the Seventh-day Adventists
Five years ago, a spiritual friend and I visited a couple of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) churches, where Adventism piqued my…
Diversity and Unity in the Religious Society of Friends
One of the trickiest tasks before the Religious Society of Friends today is embracing our diversity without losing our center,…
Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: The Risks that Faith Asks
On April 29 of this year, I was blessed to attend the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI) in Washington,…
Learning to Love Paul Wolfowitz, and Other Impossible Tasks
My activities that Sunday morning were supposed to be Christmasy and result in life actually improving in some small way…
Four Pillars of Meeting for Business
In May 2007, the board of the School of the Spirit Ministries, on which I was serving, was in the…
Peacemakers on Both Sides
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. —Matthew 5:9 Every couple of years as a…
On Teaching Religion in High School
Over the past few decades, education has become increasingly specialized. With an influx of pre-professional programs at the collegiate level…
Quakers, Devotion, and Ritual
Recently, I sat through a lively discussion at Maury River Meeting outside of Lexington, Va. The second hour presentation was…
Reclaiming Visual Ministry
At one time all art was Spirit-led. The Greek theatre, shamanic ritual objects, liturgical music, icons, and Giotto’s frescos all…
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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