The Quaker sweat lodge: a response

The Quaker sweat lodge has been a very powerful and transformative experience for many young Friends. Indeed, there are a…

Lisa Graustein

A.J. Muste: The 20th Century’s Most Famous U.S. Pacifist

In 1939, when war clouds over Europe became darker by the hour, Time magazine called Abraham Johannes Muste “the Number…

Charles F. Howlett

Walking with Gandhi

Once again I’m thinking back to the 16th of February, 2003. By that time, my own journey and experiments with…

Chris Moore-Backman

Friends Association for Higher Education: Serving Mind and Spirit

In 1993 I had recently received tenure as an associate professor of English at a state university with an undergraduate…

Barbara Dixson

Middle School Friends Workcamp

Last September, my 13-year-old daughter and I participated in the Middle School Friends Workcamp, run by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and…

Carmen Berelson

''Visions of Quaker Ministry

I’m writing here on the experiences I’ve had growing up as a liberal Quaker in the North and what I’ve…

Tristan Wilson

Quakerism for One

"Mariah, come to the office! You have a letter!" My boss was as shocked and excited as I was. It…

Mariah Miller

Membership in Transience

It takes me about 14 hours to get home from college. A mix of trains, cars, airplanes, and airports, the…

Amelia Arundale

Faith and Discernment

One of the things that first attracted me to Quakerism was the openness of Friends to a variety of spiritual…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

The force of war and the force of peace: the same force moving in opposite directions?

It seems that there is a tendency to see war as a very active energy and peace as a very…

Tom Fox

Unclean!

The sun was pressing down as hard as it could on the Earth that day, till it felt that my…

Charles David Kleymeyer

Opening to the Spirit in Creation

I see myself within the Quaker Universalist tradition, which affirms that there are many paths to Truth, and that no…

Bill Cahalan

So What Can We Say Now? Suggestions for Explaining Quakerism

Margaret Fell, "the mother of Quakerism," describes an occasion when George Fox challenged his listeners to recognize the experiential nature…

Thomas H. Jeavons

What Jesus Means to Me

As an Orthodox Jewish boy in Manchester, England, I was taught that Christianity was the religion of our oppressors. It…

Harvey Gillman

Quakers, from the Viewpoint of a Naturalist

I grew up loving nature and feeling part of it—dirt, bugs, people, and everything. It was, and still is, amazing…

Os Cresson

Finding Dropt Letters

The Religious Society of Friends contains a number of very active members who attend worship every week, yet do not…

Paul Hamell

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…