April 2011

One Weekend: Thoughts on Community

An emergency medical technician is led to share a powerful image in meeting for worship.

Friends and the Understanding of Reason and Equality

Some Friends have given more weight than she likes to the “Enlightenment assumptions” that underpin secular U.S. culture.

Ritual, Symbol, and Ceremony in Quaker Meeting

Friends rituals may be simple, but they are nonetheless very significant.

Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting’s Public Apology to Native Americans

The meeting responds to acts committed against Native Americans since the first arrival of Europeans 300 years ago.

Letters to Dear John

She pens imagined letters to John Woolman about abandoning harmful social institutions.

UN Climate Talks and the Prevention of Violent Conflict

By Alexandra Stark

From the magazine

Though impressed by the process of consensus, she found the progress slow and the awareness of the extent of danger too limited.

Creating a Peace Walk in Washington, D.C.

The author designs the itinerary for a peacethemed tour.