I believe that Friends are called to be a gathered people. As I have explored what this means, one image…

I shiver. It’s only a mile to the barn, but the temperature has been dropping all day. I check the…

The Quaker’s method is based on belief in a God-centered spiritual universe, the inner truth and meaning of which is…

From a vantage point of years, I can reflect upon an inwardly satisfying life in which science and Quakerism have…

In my life, I can’t tell how much influence has come from Quakerism, but I do strive to live by…

The sun, high in the late afternoon sky, is warm on my bare arms this spring, 2001, day in Alaska.…

I visited with the Moores in their compact apartment (which they share with Anne’s large loom!) at the Hickman, a…

In January 1655 a number of the most effective Quaker preachers came to the English Puritan town of Banbury, where…

The holidays are upon us, bringing with them the consideration of how to simplify the way we celebrate the birth…

It is common practice in addressing the ecological crisis from a religious perspective to present wasteful consumerism as the crux…

I’m grateful to my monthly meeting that since the beginning of the ’90s it has supported my ministry of religious…

Only lunatics hear the voice of God—and saints (who don’t live around here anyway). This I knew to be true…