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Time to Mind the Light
Recently I’ve had ample opportunity to reflect on the difference one person can make. My daughter has just undergone necessary…
As We Seek to do God's Will, How Much of Modern Culture Should We Incorporate?
Not since 1946, when I was a senior at Westtown (Pa.) Friends School and attended Philadelphia Yearly Meeting sessions, have…
Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate? Reflections on the Friends Peace Testimony
Dear Friends, when you first invited me to speak on the Peace Testimony last summer, I was working at Friends…
Compassion Personified
Turning Jesus into an otherworldly spirit temporarily inhabiting a male person weakens Jesus’ achievement, because what seems remarkable in a…
A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Small School Under its Care
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Residential Meeting on July 18, 2001, explored the meaning of "under the care of," a phrase familiar…
Family
It’s strange how needing to feed the fawn is taking me up the same rough road I used to drive…
Robert Purvis: Friend of the Friends
Across the road from Byberry Meeting in the 19th century, on the northeast edge of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, stood Harmony…
The Winds of Change
We like to think that we live in a fast-changing world and long for the slower pace of an earlier…
Fighting Pacifism
September 15, 2001: In the midst of unprecedented horror, I sense we have somehow been here before. The radio plays…
Going for the Gold
In the time since September 11, I have often come to Philadelphia’s Independence Mall peace vigil feeling very tired and…
A Gift of a Saturday Morning
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." —Portia, in William…
Bicycling in a State of Grace
As an alternative to driving or flying, and to show that it could be done, my husband, Kim, and I…
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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