My Spiritual Journey

My spiritual journey is—to borrow a phrase from the Beatles— "a long and winding road" that led to the Religious…

Francine E. Cheeks

We Are All Seekers

There are many ways to God. This is surely part of our Quaker tradition, and yet, like other believers, we…

Elizabeth S. Helfman

Out of Silence

Dusk mustered forces in the shrubbery when I pulled out of my friends’ driveway. It was deep into 6 p.m.…

Charles A. Waugaman

Watu Wa Amani Conference

I was invited to attend the Watu Wa Amani (People of Peace) conference in Limuru, Kenya, at the Brakenhurst Baptist…

David Zarembka

Staying the Course

This month brings us a very important Presidential election, one that will have tremendous impact on the future not just…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Getting Quakers Out to Vote in 2004

Our House of Democracy is falling down. It’s not too late to build it up again. We should not saddle…

Tracy Moavero

Global Partnerships: Opening the Way toward Economic Justice and World Peace

On the streets of Seattle in 1999, protestors put the World Trade Organization in the spotlight and got tangled in…

Lee B. Thomas Jr.

No Easy Answers about God

When I was in junior high school, I strongly preferred the kind of test questions that had easy answers: fill…

Cathy Habschmidt

Recollections of a World War II Conscientious Objector

During World War II, 12,000 men from as many as 200 religious groups received the conscientious objector classification, “4-E,” under…

Larry Miller

Behind the Scenes at the Gathering

Friends General Conference holds a Gathering of Friends every summer somewhere, on a college campus. Quakers of all sorts and…

Liz Perch

Focus on Our Future

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been thinking about environmental issues for a long time. Thirty years ago, I remember…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

"Plan B": The Rescue of a Planet and a Civilization

If it becomes clear that rising temperatures are shrinking harvests and driving up food prices, we will suddenly have a…

Lester Brown

Creating Policies that Promote a Healthy Global Society

As a legislative intern at Friends Committee on National Legislation working on legislative policies that address energy and the environment,…

Marya Hillesland

Who Owns the Water?

Of all the world’s natural resources, few are as fundamental as water. Yet, according to Years of Fresh Water, a…

Arnie Alpert

Odyssey of a Quaker Earthcare Activist

During an adult forum after meeting for worship in 1970, I had a "conversion experience" that altered the course of…

Louis Cox

The Flowering of Quaker Earthcare Witness

Friends Committee on Unity with Nature (renamed Quaker Earthcare Witness in 2003), originated at the 1987 Friends General Conference (FGC)…

Louis Cox

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…