For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and…

Kat Griffith

Intersecting Circles

A number of years ago, while teaching at Harvard Divinity School, Henry Cadbury encountered a distraught former student who had…

George A. Crispin

The Benches of Cobscook (Maine) Meeting

There are five antique Quaker benches at Cobscook (Maine) Meeting. At this point they are in various stages of disrepair.…

Audrey Snyder

Epiphany

Now that the seasonal Epiphany is behind us for another calendar year, it is interesting to think of the meaning…

Claire Gerber

Sardines: A Meditation on Latecomers

My favorite variation of hide-and-seek, learned in one of the many towns I lived in as a child, was called…

Sue Tannehill

To the Desk Clerk Out There – Thank You

My first two years at college in the early 1970s were more like Apollo 13 than Apollo 11: I realized…

John Bryer

Peacemaking: Public and Private

In addressing this topic, I turn to the theme of a workshop/retreat with Bennington (Vt.) Meeting in August 2002, as…

Michael True

Finding Jesus in the Present

Reflecting on earlier periods of history, I often think I would have preferred to live as a farmer during the…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

A Friend’s Testimony on Domestic Violence?

We are called upon to love the loveless and the unlovable, to reach out to the racists and the torturers,…

Anonymous

Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword

The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…

Paul Buckley

Jesus as a Friend

Many members of the Religious Society of Friends love the ambiguity of the term friend as it shifts between companion…

Paricia A. Williams

A Report from a Parallel Universe

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but the means by which we arrive at that goal."…

John H. Darnell

A Statement of Christian Pacifism

I am a Christian, and therefore I am a pacifist. For the first 300 years following the resurrection of Jesus,…

Lloyd Lee Wilson

Discovering the Sacraments

As Friends, we say that we do not observe outward sacraments be-cause all of life is sacramental. Recently, I felt…

Elizabeth F. Meyer

The House of Lamps

The One True Light The lamps are different, but the Light is the same; it comes from Beyond. If thou…

Phil Irwin

Reaching out to Prisoners

To introduce the Quaker Spiritual Friends program of the Advancement and Outreach Committee of Friends General Conference to the larger…

Sally Rickerman

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…