Quaker Women in Ministry

Two summers ago, at the Friends General Conference Gathering, Peggy O’Neill contacted then Senior Editor Bob Dockhorn and me to…

Business Meeting and Worship

Two recent Forum letters have expressed the view that Friends ought not to use the word "worship" to describe what…

Little Girl, Wake Up

My granddaughter Abby sometimes likes me to tell her stories about Jesus. She is four, so I keep them simple…

Healing the Wounds of Patriarchy, One Woman at a Time

It’s day four of the Friends General Conference Gathering workshop for high school women, “Honoring That of Goddess Within.” Twelve…

Called

And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. —1 Samuel 3:1 "You…

On Quaker Mothering

The major ministry to which I’m devoting my life at the moment is raising two little Friends. As far as…

Walking the Labyrinth

"This is the message we have heard and declare to you: God is light; in God there is no darkness…

Quaker Women I Have Known

"The women in my family do things," said John Foster, the Quaker man I had just met in India. Much…

Every Woman Counts

Haiti is a dangerous place to be a pregnant woman. While the worldwide average risk of dying in childbirth has…

The Herstory of “Oak Womyn Drumming”

"Oak Womyn Drumming" came into existence after a sequence of events with profound feminist implications. First, there was a minute…

Common Threads

In an online sermon Honoring our Theological Diversity, Unitarian Universalist minister Susan Manker-Seale says, "Long, long ago, high on a…

Book Reviews

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Quaker Women, 1800–1920: Studies of a Changing Landscape

October 1, 2024

Wait and Watch: Spiritual Practice, Rehearsal, and Performance

October 1, 2024

Rufus Jones and the Presence of God

October 1, 2024