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Thinking About Women
The New Year has barely begun as I sit to write this column. I am still flush with the blessings…
A Perspective on the Quaker Sweat Lodge
I am responding to Chuck Fager’s recent letter on Friends General Conference and the Quaker Sweat Lodge ("Finding a Way…
On Sexism as a Spiritual Disaster
I have been a feminist for 35 years. It has been, in effect, my religion. For me, feminism is a…
Remembering Patricia
I met her at work, answered when she called our hotline and, later that day, welcomed her at our shelter…
Whose DNA Is It Anyway?
What if your girlfriend asked you to take a DNA test before you got engaged? Or your employer wanted a…
The Aspirations of Andean Quakers
Yes, there are Quakers in the Andes—lots of them. And, yes, they have aspirations. Working with them, as a Quaker…
On the Significance of Benches
In the final worship at a recent session of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), I found myself reflecting on the keynote…
The Wandering Leadings of the Spirit
A great swoop over my head, and a steady beat of wings. Suddenly a dark shape banks, turns, and disappears…
QUNO: Supporting Multilateralism
The Quaker United Nations Office, located in New York and Geneva, represents Quakers at the United Nations and other intergovernmental…
Moses and the Tantrum
If everything worked perfectly, we would be only five minutes late, I told myself as I hurried my two-year-old daughter…
The Civil War Swords
They came to us, my husband and me, in 1977, after my mother-in-law died. Long ago she had laid them…
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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