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Susan Corson-Finnerty is on vacation while this issue is being prepared. For me, summer is not a time to be…
Please respect the need for privacy
Every year, I eagerly await the Gathering. It is the one week of the year that is completely mine. I…
Unpalatable Truths
I thought I knew the costs of war. They had fueled my outrage over the arrogance, the ignorance, and the…
Friends and Torture
To get at the issue of Friends and torture, let me start with the Bible, specifically a parable—what I think…
Friends and Cyberspace
My interest in Quakerism has grown steadily over the past decade during my tenure as an English teacher and more…
God Does Not Need Your Cash
So there I was . . . On Saturday night, most weeks of my childhood, freshly scrubbed out of the…
The Meeting School after 50 Years
What if we could have the kind of schools that prepared youngsters for the kind of world we should have,…
Living Truth at The Woolman Semester
In late 2003 I was at a peak of emotional and spiritual turmoil. I was teaching middle and high school…
Mending the World
Our world is torn and broken. Many parts of it are not working. There are great tears and gashes, holes…
Living Outside the Box
Sometimes in meeting for worship we are knocked off our comfortable seats by revelations arising from messages from without and…
On Being a Grandmother
Everyone said just wait—being a grandmother is the most wonderful thing in the world. I thought to myself: yeah, yeah…whatever!…
Thoughts on the Peace Testimony
I have been struggling with what to say about the Peace Testimony for several weeks now. Every time I think…
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Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist
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Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
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Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
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