It all began very simply. By chance two old friends met at the square in Sonoma, California, and decided to…

Teaching the young ones in our meeting, I think often of Art Linkletter’s show that I watched when I was…

In February it is common to see evidence of Valentine’s Day in every supermarket and drug store. Talk of love…

Ironically, few issues have divided Quakers more than war-making and peacemaking. A favorite image of Quakers in the wider world…

The Way of Peace The principle object of aikido is to build a paradise on Earth by creating harmony in…

Hector, isn’t it a Quaker thing to be concerned with the influence of the military on our children?" With such…

In the Jewish tradition in which I grew up, we have midrashim (the Hebrew plural for midrash.) A midrash is…

I think this excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Hallowell (Philadelphia: Friends Book Association, 1883) makes an interesting story for…

It was June 1935, and the Great Depression had settled over our middle-Indiana town like the heat and humidity in…

My spiritual life was nourished abundantly during my pregnancy, in part because of the natural turning inward that this time…

Thomas Kelly is the first of four activist Friends that I intend to write about in this column over the…

This past year, we’ve been celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Friends Journal. It’s been quite a time, with cakes and…