The Friends Committee on Unity with Nature Center

The FCUN Center at this year’s Gathering drew many Friends for reading, video viewing, meetings, and informal discussions of current…

Louis Cox

Racial Wounding at the Gathering

I arrived in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, excited to be attending Friends General Conference’s Gathering and looking forward to a week filled…

Vanessa Julye

Divine Noises at the Gathering

The Gathering is an exercise in listening for God. Not being a particularly strong candidate for sainthood, I’m always delighted…

Lucinda Antrim

Missing Link Found

Blue shapes swim on the cover of the book on my desk: Walter Wink’s newest one, The Human Being: Jesus…

Amy Gomez

John Munson

John Munson describes himself as "a Quaker, a Pacific Northwesterner, and an internationalist. I’ve been a lawyer for more than…

Kara Newell

Extending a Hand

I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and…

Darryl Ajani Butler

Inside

The muted colors of stone, the horizontal lines of the walls, and the straight walkways are calming as I pass…

Mary Grace Larsen

War on Whom?

We live in troubling times.

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Doing Time Invisibly

Our prisons are a reflection of our society. —Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Each day living in prison makes a person realize…

John Mandala

Sisters-in-Detention: Notes from behind the Walls

I have been detained for almost two years in a county prison, awaiting my trial. There are many reasons for…

Robyn Maloney-George

The Fountain

As we look around us, there are so many forms of spiritual decay, hopelessness, and violence. People are frustrated, irritated,…

Darryl Ajani Butler

Dear Hal . . . A Journey across Miles, Years, and Prison Walls

Several years ago I read a report in a science magazine that stated that even with our most advanced instruments…

Bill Deutsch

Rosary: A Spiritual Journey out of Prison

In 1990, I married a man in prison. I had been a volunteer for many years for the Alternatives to…

Lynn Fitz-Hugh

AVP: An Interview with Steve Angell

Stephen L. Angell was an early participant and continues to be active in the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a…

Robert Dockhorn

Transformation of Violence

Where does it come from—this powerful rush of emotion and adrenaline that society labels as violence? Nothing has ever been…

Harold Wilson

Doing Hard Time

HIPP (Help Increase the Peace Project) is a conflict resolution program adapted for teens from the Alternatives to Violence Project…

Kaki Sjogren

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…