Reflection

Reimagining a Yearly Meeting

Indiana Yearly Meeting has recently split, and we’re in the early stages of setting up a new association of Friends.… Joshua Brown

A Holy Place

Many years ago, I found myself driving a long distance with a woman from my office. I didn’t know her… Debby Churchman

Why I Work for Social Justice and Healing

A reflection. Lucy Duncan

The Safety of Silence

A reader sinks into the familiarity and safety of silence. Lindsey Mead Russell

Thoughts on Wanting Less

Every year Americans throw out or recycle more than 250 tons of garbage. Only about 14 percent of this waste… Elizabeth Helen Spencer

The Night I Took a Second Look

Fog smudged the letters on the street sign and the features of the man on the sidewalk. It was 9:30… Dorothy Kinsman Brown

Walking From Shadows Into Light

  “. . . for we walk by faith not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) As a retired person, walking has… Peter Lang

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the… Ken Southwood

The Solace of History: Reflections on Quakers and the Environment

Sometimes I feel painfully out-of-step with the world around me. Perhaps I’d have fit in better in some other era,… Ellen M. Ross

The Silence Within the Silence

Deep within us all is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a Speaking… Peter Lang
Reflection

A Psalm for New Year’s Day

New Year’s is a holy day when we celebrate the gift of time, the primeval gift, the majestic gift from… Wallace T. Collett