A Letter from Bolivia

Fourth Month, Fifth Day, 2007 Dear friends and family, I know that it has only been a week since I…

Andrew Esser-Haines

Interning at FCNL

Graduating from college, moving away from home, and starting a first post-graduation job are rites of passage into the adult…

Maureen Brookes

Who is really to blame?

I am sure I am not the only Friend who listened to the reports of the massacre at Virginia Tech…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Is thee truly a Friend?

I have been led to write this and ask it of all who will listen. This is a leading that…

James Wilkerson

The Little Museum that Could: Documenting My ‘Neighbors’ Fate-and My Own

In a train from Prague to Ostrava, spring 1992: Navigating his high-school German and my miserable Czech, the well-dressed business…

Michael Luick-Thrams

Heaven and Hell

I was a relentlessly curious kid, so naturally I joined the crowd of children outside the open door of the…

Charles David Kleymeyer

”But Who Is My Neighbor?

It was Wednesday night at the 2006 Friends General Conference Gathering in Tacoma, Washington. I had been spending the evening…

Bob Schmitt

American Friends Service Committee after 90 Years

We seek to know where the Spirit is calling us to be in a particular place and time. —Quaker aphorism…

Francine Cheeks

A Peace Perspective

For the past few years I, like many other people, have done a lot of antiwar work. For me and…

Mary Lord

AFSC and Human Rights for Immigrants

From resettling Jewish refugees in the United States during the 1930s to aiding Japanese internees during World War II, to…

Carol Tashjian

Love in the Face of Violence

Twenty-some years ago, Ron and I sold everything we owned and flew off to Africa. We landed in Southern Sudan…

Pam Ferguson

Facilitating Interreligious Weddings

Since the fall of 1989, I have been involved as a kind of facilitator for three weddings, held in the…

Dick Wood

”What We Have Lost

My morning walks along Main Street in Moorestown, New Jersey, take me past former workcamp director David Richie’s place where…

Charles Perrone

Comforting the Comforter

Meals on Wheels. Last delivery of the route. Molly. A lonely old widow. I wait patiently as she tells me…

George Gjelfriend

Particularity and the Poison Tree

There is a parable that I learned from the Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield about a poison tree. It goes something…

Tom Clinton-McCausland

The Pilgrimage

September 11, 2006, was the fifth anniversary of the tragedy in New York. It was also the 100th anniversary of…

Lee Thomas

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…