When I first heard the meowings outside the garage door, then on the back porch, I thought, "Oh, no. There’s…

Our meetinghouse is going through a seemingly mundane transformation. An ad hoc committee has introduced new, molded stacking chairs to…

At my house, we’re coming to the end of a long season of college application essays and other tasks related…

The world will never be the same again!" Since September 11, 2001, we have heard and read this dozens of…

On December 11, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words: "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and…

Talking to God was an everyday affair when I was growing up. We said a blessing before meals, had Bible…

Forgiveness is popular. Like mercy, "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes" (Portia, in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant…

The punch line of a very long joke left us groaning: "transporting young gulls over sedated lions for immortal porpoises."…

Growing up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I was surrounded by beautiful quilts mostly made by Amish and Mennonites. My grandmother…

When one cares deeply about something or someone it is impossible to sit passively and let that thing or person…

Reading Friends Journal has become a fruitful habit. I find it timely, relevant, and frequently speaking directly to me. In…

As early as 1922 there were a few people worshiping in the manner of Friends in the Lehigh Valley region…