Christmas Light

Photo by kwasny222 Last year I was not in the mood for the Friends’ holiday party, though it is usually…

Eleanor Wright

Christmas – Every Day or Never?

No doubt an old-fashioned Quaker Christmas was a cozy time according to some traditions or records or family memories, but…

Henry J. Cadbury

Our Most Precious Resource

It is my good fortune to belong to a large, urban meeting that has quite a few families with young…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Rancor

My son and I, separated by half a continent, had been talking on the phone for 30 minutes when he…

Lance Wilcox

Advice to a Young Artist in America

You ask me: "What is the fine artist to do in America today? Where is he to find his position?…

Fritz Eichenberg

A Journey of Love and Entreaty

We received this article with a cover letter by Anne Morrison Welsh.

Dorothy J. Mock

What Is the Essence of an Active Faith?

Along with 27 others, Peg Morton trespassed onto Fort Benning property in November 2003 as a part of the effort…

Peg Morton

The 2005 Friends General Conference Gathering

There were over 1,500 Friends, arriving in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the Virginia Tech campus on July 2, in blazing heat.…

Louise Harris

The Gathering in Appreciation

This Gathering was an opportunity to be gathering in the spirit with multiple witnesses and a spectrum of Friends, beliefs,…

Margery Mears Larrabee

Musings on Golf Carts

Gathering Friends have a passion for golf carts, both as passengers and as drivers. Those who partake of this form…

Judith Greenberg

Bayard Rustin: Out from the Shadows of History

Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise. San Francisco:…

Brian Ward

Obtaining a U.S. Visa in Uganda

After the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) summer workcamp in 2004, several of the workcampers from Germantown (Pa.) Meeting had…

Barbara Wybar

Nurturing Our Meetings

When I first attended Friends meeting in my early 30s, I knew that I was in the right place, but…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Building the Beloved Community

Atlanta Friends Meeting began as such a diverse group of people that one of the first attenders commented, "It seemed…

Mary Ann Downey

Hospitality in the Manner of Friends

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one…

Nancy Fennell

An Approach to Religious Education

Members of the Menomonie Ministerial Association (M.A.M.A) stared at me in slack-jawed silence. We had been in the midst of…

Mary Snyder

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…