Restorative Practices as Practical Peacemaking

A restorative and holistic approach to peacemaking is urgently needed in a world where violence is an integral part of…

Bette Rainbow Hoover

Building Peace at Crossroads Springs

Rhubarb, garlic, and parsnips for peace! What do these have to do with the Friends Peace Testimony? At Orchard Park…

Alison Hyde

The Gift of the House of the Peaceable Kin-dom

In my youth I was a comic book geek. Occasionally one might hear me cheekily go off about their ability…

Tai Amri Spann-Wilson

Teaching Peace/Making Peacemakers

Soft is stronger than hard, water than rock, love than violence. —Hermann Hesse In April 16, 2007, my friend Roger’s…

Tom Dwyer

Removing the Pressure for War

Among the various books and pamphlets in our meeting’s library, some focus on proving that war is wrong. Others expound…

Faith Morgan

The Responsibility to Protect: Quakers and Genocide

As I sit writing this article, I hold in my hand a full-page ad placed by the Save Darfur Coalition…

Jack T. Patterson

Integrity Means Being Part of the Solution

"We want to hear more about the Earthcare resources you mentioned at your presentation last night," our hosts said after…

Ruah Swennerfelt

A Significant Anniversary-And More

Fifty years ago this month, on June 27, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed Friends who gathered in Cape May,…

Robert Dockhorn

The Power of Fearful Faithfulness: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy For Friends

In March, I received an invitation to this summer’s Friends General Conference Gathering in Johnstown, Pa. Pulling the flyer from…

Steve Chase

Fifty-Second Street

The thermometer read 102 degrees. Two-year-old Christina lay in bed crying, her tan face red with fever as she turned…

George R. Lakey

Quakers and Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow

Out of the silence a woman asked, “Why don’t Friends take reparations more seriously? It’s the kind of issue Quakers…

Jeff Hitchcock

The Divine Palette

An old and dear Friend died this week. And it made me think, once iagain, about the Light Within. My…

Dean C. T. Bratis

Home Training

Mama sometimes stayed home from church on Sunday, saying, "I can worship God just fine right here in the kitchen…

Mary Ann Downey

A Dog's Buddha Nature

In the fall of 1968 I had moved away from a disbanding communal living situation on New York’s Long Island,…

Irwin Gooen

The Terrorist's Stories

I was talking to my boys, Gurney and Ammon, about religious conviction and the choice of community of spirit, while…

Stuart Bartram

From Surplus to Big Plus

Every so often, many of us are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time to…

Don Lathrop

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…