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Preparing for Hard Times
As I write, I’ve just returned from the Friends General Conference Gathering in Johnstown, Pa., where we collectively spent a…
Quaker Spiritual Disciplines for Hard Times
an the spiritual disciplines of early Friends help us through hard times in the 21st century? The very question of…
Vignettes of an Antiwar Vet
Introduction I have written these vignettes for Susan, the little girl I had to leave behind when I went to…
Walking the Walk: Ian Fritz
Protest in Skokie In 2000, Ian Fritz, a member of Milwaukee (Wis.) Meeting, experienced a life-changing event. On Decem-ber 16,…
Kindness of the Night
I do a 3 to 5 a.m. shift once a month at a homeless shelter that is run by a…
Traveling in Turkey
I. Turkish Countryside, December 2000 Minarets point past Greek, Roman, Christian ruins, across dry landscapes. Sun-leathered farmers till small fields,…
An Aspect of Continuing Revelation?
Since the dawn of history, religious traditions have been giving birth to poets and mystics. Quakerism also has had its…
Carved in Stone
When Karin Sprague’s father-in-law died suddenly in 1996 she knew what she would do with the rest of her life.…
2002 State of the Meeting Reports
A deeper sense of fellowship in meetings for worship was experienced by Friends in monthly meetings from Maine to Hawaii…
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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