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Finding Hope
Since the national election in the United States last November, I’ve been reading many commentaries by people who hoped for…
Comments on the review of When the Rain Returns
I was deeply saddened by Stanley Zarowin’s review of When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and…
Owning the Lord’s Prayer
In 1997, my wife and I decided on a radical midlife career change. Over the next year, we quit our…
A Kitchen with a View
A kitchen tells you a lot about a home and the people who live there. Grandmother Corpening’s kitchen in rural…
The Substance of Hope
The title of this talk is taken from that passage in the Bible which says, "Faith is the substance of…
Doorways
Doorways are so commonplace in everyday life that we scarcely give them a thought, unless a door sticks or a…
Talking to Bob
On a clear, cool Friday afternoon several months ago, I led a small group of third-graders up to the ham…
'Moral Values' and FCNL's Legislative Agenda
There has been a good deal of postelection discussion of the role that "moral values" played in the outcome of…
Hanging out Laundry with My Sister in Fallujah
Monday morning I woke to news of the siege, speculation as to who was still in the city. At least…
Remembering Wyoming
Wyoming Snipes Kashoff passed away two years ago, on February 22, 2003, at the extraordinary age of 38. At the…
Mary Penington (1625-1682)
Mary Penington’s name is usually mentioned first because she was married to Isaac, and secondarily as mother of Gulielma, William…
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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