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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Staśa Morgan-Appel In the summer of 2000, I was in a car accident with multiple impacts. I walked away…

An important part of our complicated history turns up in family papers.

If we are to reach and garner the present day seekers who exist in every neighborhood, persons who are disillusioned over the effectiveness and value of the ordinary run of church service, our Quaker meetings must become unique centers of spiritual life, where there is felt a thrill of reality.

Last year our family joined a small group that focuses on sharing real life together, while being intentionally vague in defining…

In M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment plays a troubled kid named Cole Sear. Cole…