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Searching Out That on Which We Can Depend
My daily routine usually starts with a two-mile walk on an athletic track near my home. It’s an energizing way…
Friends: An Elite Group or a People to Be Gathered?
I believe that Friends are called to be a gathered people. As I have explored what this means, one image…
Cold Spell
I shiver. It’s only a mile to the barn, but the temperature has been dropping all day. I check the…
Discerning the Divine
The Quaker’s method is based on belief in a God-centered spiritual universe, the inner truth and meaning of which is…
Focusing on the Light
What is here urged are inward practices of the mind at deepest levels, letting it swing like the needle, to…
A Spiritual Haven for Scientists
From a vantage point of years, I can reflect upon an inwardly satisfying life in which science and Quakerism have…
On Being a Quaker in the World
In my life, I can’t tell how much influence has come from Quakerism, but I do strive to live by…
Winter in Fairbanks
The sun, high in the late afternoon sky, is warm on my bare arms this spring, 2001, day in Alaska.…
Reflections of a Convinced Friend
Convincement No one has expressed the meaning of convincement better than St. Paul in his letter to the Romans: For…
Tom and Anne Moore
I visited with the Moores in their compact apartment (which they share with Anne’s large loom!) at the Hickman, a…
Peace and Good Behavior: A Minor Testimony?
In January 1655 a number of the most effective Quaker preachers came to the English Puritan town of Banbury, where…
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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