Amachi is a national initiative to provide caring, committed mentors to the children of prisoners.

In December 1955 the New York Times published an obituary, titled "Mary McDowell, Peace Crusader." The subtitle read: "Teacher Dismissed…

Every sandcastle requires a second hole. Not the moat’s descriptive circle, but a mining hole, dug off to the side.…

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.—Matt. 5:9 As with people all over the…

We began talking about the possibility of doing a special issue on aging and life’s end a couple of years…

The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house…

We’re too young, but let’s look at some Quaker retirement communities anyway and put our names down—it may take ten…

In Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) we are fortunate in having a good number of couples about the same age (between…

Quakers believe in truth-seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences…

"Come Lord, be with us And bless what thou hast given to us." These words came to me again in…

Henry David Thoreau explained his famous sojourn at Walden Pond with the words, "I went to the woods because I…

Accept with serenity the approach of each new stage of life. Welcome the approach of old age, both for oneself…