2001 State of the Meeting Reports

In the shadow of September 11 and the ensuing war against terrorism, Friends in their monthly meetings have experienced a…

Robert Marks

Time to Mind the Light

Recently I’ve had ample opportunity to reflect on the difference one person can make. My daughter has just undergone necessary…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

As We Seek to do God's Will, How Much of Modern Culture Should We Incorporate?

Not since 1946, when I was a senior at Westtown (Pa.) Friends School and attended Philadelphia Yearly Meeting sessions, have…

Martha Wilson

Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate? Reflections on the Friends Peace Testimony

Dear Friends, when you first invited me to speak on the Peace Testimony last summer, I was working at Friends…

Mary Lord

Compassion Personified

Turning Jesus into an otherworldly spirit temporarily inhabiting a male person weakens Jesus’ achievement, because what seems remarkable in a…

Arthur Rifkin

A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Small School Under its Care

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Residential Meeting on July 18, 2001, explored the meaning of "under the care of," a phrase familiar…

JoAnn Seaver

Family

It’s strange how needing to feed the fawn is taking me up the same rough road I used to drive…

Helen Weaver Horn

Robert Purvis: Friend of the Friends

Across the road from Byberry Meeting in the 19th century, on the northeast edge of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, stood Harmony…

Margaret Hope Bacon

The Winds of Change

We like to think that we live in a fast-changing world and long for the slower pace of an earlier…

Paul Buckley

Fighting Pacifism

September 15, 2001: In the midst of unprecedented horror, I sense we have somehow been here before. The radio plays…

Beth Taylor

Going for the Gold

In the time since September 11, I have often come to Philadelphia’s Independence Mall peace vigil feeling very tired and…

Marcelle Martin

A Gift of a Saturday Morning

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." —Portia, in William…

Kathryn Parke

Bicycling in a State of Grace

As an alternative to driving or flying, and to show that it could be done, my husband, Kim, and I…

Susan Carlyle

Let Suffering Stop Here

I’ve recently read an article in the New York Times detailing the Bush administration’s plans to launch an attack on…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Can We Provide Financial Resources for Medical Care?

The following was in Reports and Epistles (FJ Mar.): "Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is concerned that many persons in the…

Paul Buckley

What Can Love Do?

It is written in the book of Micah, "And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice,…

Amanda Hoffman

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…