How Do You Feel the Light Inside You?

The ministry of religious education.

Melinda Wenner Bradley

A Weekend Workcamp

Remembering a transformative youth service experience.

Just A Number

When it comes to age, we're all in sweet denial

Washing

They wash us so we will wash others

On Being 80

Celestial gardens dare to bloom

October Sunset

Suspended in a sky of sunset washed clouds

Time Leaves No Shadow

Climbing the stairway to old age

A Pacifist Reconsiders Military Action in Syria

A foreign-born Quaker pacifist abstains from the missile strikes debate.

Syria As a Tipping Point

I don’t know how to create transformation on a global scale, but “let us see what love can do.”

Forum September 2013

Forum A colorful shock The color August issue of Friends Journal was a shock, but a good one! I commend…

What Love Requires: Community and the Challenge of Diversity

Community and the challenge of diversity.

Listening with the Eyes

Photography as contemplative practice.

From the Archives: Light on Death Row

"I know that opposing the death penalty will not be easy for U.S. Friends, as the tide of public opinion is running so swiftly in the opposite direction. We owe this to our Quaker principles, to that Light within ourselves that recognizes that of God in every man and woman, no matter where they may be or what they may have done."

Witness to an Execution

A prison correspondence leads to a feared request.

Lucretia and James: Living in Perfect Love

Our heroes and heroines rarely emerge fully formed.

Telling Stories of Our Spiritual Journey

We need to create space for sharing our stories.

Quality & Quakerism

Parallels between the pursuit of quality and being a Quaker.

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