How Do You Feel the Light Inside You?

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Melinda Wenner Bradley

Transforming War, One Peace Activist at a Time

When I found myself on 59th Street in New York City on February 15, hundreds of protesters on Third Avenue…

Some Thoughts on Membership

Membership issues are one of those items that Ministry and Counsel keeps putting off discussing. There are many issues surrounding…

Clerking

Having a good process is the way that organizations I’ve been part of have been able to function. Having realized…

Finding Hope

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27) Anyone in my family can tell you…

U.S. Exceptionalism vs. Human Solidarity

The attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon has generated a range of responses…

Raising CO Consciousness in Our Youth

Like everyone, we are touched close to home and deep in our hearts by the War on Terrorism. But as…

Prayer, Healing, and a Miracle

Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying…

Inward Light and Outward Light

When people get together for a business meeting in a non-Quaker setting, they analyze each problem, share the best solutions…

Confessions of a Nontheistic Friend

"I have found profit in tracing the word [worship] back to its Old English root, weorthscipe, meaning worthship. In the…

Who's Been Reading George Fox's Journal?

I have been using the edition of George Fox’s Journal edited by John L. Nickalls for years, and it was…

Trying to See God

I climbed the mimosa tree in my backyard looking for God. My ten-year-old mind had latched on to the words…

The Christiana Resistance

In the early morning hours of September 11, 1851—ten years before the Civil War and exactly 150 years to the…

Demie Kurz

With Demie Kurz, conversation about life, family, work, and beliefs is laced with phrases of feeling—"I love . . .…

Freedom and Responsibility

I didn’t realize that blue hair would be such a problem. It was the campers’ hair, not mine after all.…

Let Us Be Peace

One needn’t have an appreciation of the esoteric or a feeling for energy fields to perceive the palpable present anguish…

Addressing Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Most of us have reaped the benefits of an economy powered by fossil fuel. There is no need to list…

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