Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience

Hideko Tamura is a second soprano with Rogue Valley Peace Choir, a retired social worker, an author, and a survivor…

Donnan Beeson Runkel

Filming the Life of Gobi Women

Leading, 1997 As I sit in meditation, I see single women lliving a nomadic life—women using wool from their sheep…

Sas Carey

God: The Ultimate Vacuum Trap

Yesterday I was cold. Not surprising, as we live at 6,000 feet altitude in an inadequately insulated house with no…

Alicia Adams

‘How Is Thee’: Musings on Ironies and Self Justification Among Friends

For a long time I have had a back-burner interest in the evolution of the use of thee, thou, and…

Albert W. Briggs Jr.

Useful Fictions

I am a scientist, an atheist, and a skeptic who does not believe in any form of the supernatural. Nonetheless,…

George Gjelfriend

A Frog Fable

Frogs from near and far gather at the edge of Quaker Pond adjacent to the old meetinghouse, croaking loudly as…

Stanley Zarowin

An Eleventh Commandment?

At an interfaith conference on "Waters of Life, Sacred and Profaned" held in April 2007 at Saint Michael’s College in…

Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox

Summer Doldrums Blown Away

Even knowing from experience that "the Spirit can live in the jails," as George Fox once remarked, there are hot…

Keith R. Maddock

Credo

I believe there is an ultimate reality that makes existence possible and continuously sustains creation. At the human level, we…

Betty Jean Rugh Elder

Explaining Windows to an Ant

For me, the Earth is an unchanging solid foundation. The sun rises in the East, travels across the sky, and…

Mark S. Cary

The Great Leveling

The "Great Leveling" emerged from the oddest coalition of political representatives ever witnessed in this nation. As the abyss between…

Robin Carter

Alternatives to Violence Project: An Interview with Steve Angell

Stephen L. Angell was an early participant and continues to be active in the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a program that offers workshops on nonviolence in prisons and elsewhere. This interview took place in Kennett Square, Pa., on June 18, 2002.

Robert Dockhorn

What Are Schools For?

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of efficiency and control.

Thomas B. Farquhar

Imparting Our Values

When my children were young, I remember how challenging it could be to share my Quaker values with them—and to…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

A Sacred Walk: Parenting as a Way to God

Nothing has taught me more about the constancy of God’s presence and continuing creation than being a parent. From the…

Lucy Duncan

Quaker Education: Thoughts on Our Words, Our Silence, and a Very Cool Milk Jug Raft

G. K. Chesterton once said that most educational debates more or less dead-end at "Let us not decide what is…

Kat Griffith

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…