The Elective Franchise and Prisoners

In all but three states in this country, people in prison are disenfranchised from the elective process. That translates into…

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

The Moralities of Food

Deep moral issues exist within the topic of food, whether we are talking about the devastation being laid on creation…

Last Date at Friends Fellowship

(in memory of Mary Elizabeth Long) On my last visit, we had the white-tablecloth lunch in the Friends Fellowship dining…

Arugula

The first time I ever had arugula was in the Willoughby’s kitchen. Somehow or other there is always food in…

My spiritual life, with food

I am a weighty Friend in the literal sense of weighing a lot but definitely not in the metaphorical sense…

The Covenant of Peace

What did Jesus mean by the “Kingdom of God,” what the early Quakers called the “Covenant of Peace” (Ezk. 34:25)?…

Quaker Testimony in Green Building

In the late 1990s, the building that housed Friends Committee on National Legislation was literally falling apart. “There were filing…

Composting as Holy Sacrament

In my family album, there is a picture that my mother took of me in 1945 as a two-year-old “helping”…

Book Reviews

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War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

June 1, 2023

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

June 1, 2023

Echoes from Wuhan: The Past as Prologue

June 1, 2023