Death Warrant

When my best friend/Friend asked me if I would write something about the death penalty, I wasn’t really sure what…

Scott Blystone

Terre Haute Journal

Ploptch. The rain fell in big drops. Ploptch. Ploptch. Ploptch. Big, slow, kersplash drops. Falling on a group of about…

Doug Stern

It all started with a letter—an invitation from the Respect for Life Committee of St. Dismas Parish, within the Delaware…

Sally Milbury-Steen

While many Quakers are familiar with the pioneering work of Elizabeth Fry in Newgate Prison, London, relatively few are aware…

Margaret Hope Bacon

When we started as volunteers with Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS), we did not have a clear idea about what…

Cassandra Fralix and Gerald Rudolph

Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) is the only nationwide, interfaith visitation program with access to all federal and military prisons…

Eric Corson

"Doing time" is a synonym for "incarceration." Too often, it means wasting time—and wasting opportunities to change lives through education.…

Dorothy Kinsman Brown

"Dear Sir," reads the letter I open, written in pencil on lined notebook paper; then, redundantly, "To Who it concern…

Alison M. Lewis

What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with…

Jane Cadwallader

KatherinevanWormer

A year has passed since the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This month there will…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

I am writing this because I was very moved by the articles of Mary Lord and Arthur Rifkin in the…

George Rubin

At the onset of the American Revolution, a group of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Quakers issued a four-page broadside declaring…

Cameron McWhirter

Between 1993 and 1996 I lived in Jerusalem, where I did peace work for the Mennonite Central Committee. Recent events…

Chip Poston

In a meeting for worship in the early 1940s a young woman, fairly new to Friends, felt the irresistible urge…

Marty Paxson Grundy

Throughout history, some men and women have been opened morefully than others to the mystery of creation, to a deeper…

Richard W. Siebels

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…