How Do You Feel the Light Inside You?

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Melinda Wenner Bradley

FWCC 2004 Triennial in New Zealand

Attending a Friends World Committee for Consultation Triennial can be an occasion, or a season of grace, where we can…

A Look Back at the FWCC Peace Conference

Love is the only way. It is an eternal reminder to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a…

Abraham: A Less-than-Perfect Choice

That’s exactly what I don’t like about so many Bible stories—they’re unfair." The Friend who made this comment has a…

The Passion

By the time I saw Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, much had been written about the film’s violence.…

The Local Side of Globalization

I’ve traveled quite a bit this spring—to Idaho, Wyoming, North Carolina, New York, passing through Georgia, Utah, and Nevada. In…

A Quaker Response to Economic Globalization

We must identify the seeds of violence that are scattered in the wake of U.S.-style hypercapitalism when it is forced…

Lillian's Choices

A family council took place in a large Manhattan loft on December 26, 2003. George and Lillian Willoughby were discussing…

Images of God

ur ways of imaging God are related to the ways in which we image ourselves—and our relationships with each other,…

Exploring and Discovering a Friends School Meeting

When I first began teaching at a Friends school seven years ago, what I knew of Quakers derived mostly from…

Learning Peace in Time of War: A Classroom Retrospective

For four years I’ve been teaching a required interdisciplinary course on violence and nonviolence, called Peace and War, at Johnson…

Garden

"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps." —Bronson Alcott In one of the most remarkably out-of-character statements ever made…

Simplifying Life in Our Corner of the World

In June 2003, our Friends Meeting in Klamath Falls, Oregon, held a "Simplify Your Life" yard sale and raised $3,200…

Full Circle

A circle of Quakers gathers on a bright, crisp April morning in the meetinghouse on Orrong Road. We sit on…

Margaret Fell

My abiding goal in these columns is to direct readers’ attention to important spiritual resources within the Quaker tradition. Margaret…

Arrivals and Departures

It’s not unusual for the arrival of children to bring about big changes, not just for families, but for organizations…

Should War Tax Resistance Be a Corporate Testimony?

At New York Yearly Meeting in 1999, I was given a message: The Spirit calls Friends to claim a corporate…

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