Aspiring to Transformation

At this time of year my thoughts always turn to Jesus’ death and resurrection. The theme is inescapable. I live…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Our Testimony to the World

In the aftermath of our country’s encounter with its terrorist assailants, I have been sometimes dismayed by Friends’ too handy…

Michael Dawson

A Response to September Eleventh

As a Quaker, a pacifist, and one of the 9 percent of U.S. citizens who dissent from our country’s current…

Stephen G. Cary

The Silence of Holy Saturday

The most penetrating sound of September 2001 came not on Tuesday the 11th but on Sunday the 16th. In November…

David L. Johns

Half in Love with Easeful Death

This morning I was out on the rear deck doing the yoga I do to keep at bay the aches…

Christopher L. King

Paul, Apostle of Love

Many commentators, and indeed, the informed general public, perceive a discrepancy between the open and generous message of Jesus preaching…

John Pitts Corry

A Peacemaking Presence in a Troubled Land

An appeal recently reached my husband, Bill, and me to protest the removal of an extended family of 16 Palestinian…

Genie Durland

No Return to Oslo

This is yet another crucial moment in the capricious Middle East peace process. The new political reality that has emerged…

Jeff Halper

Students Learn while Folding Peace Cranes

In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11th, I knew, as a librarian in a Quaker lower school,…

Kathy Singer

Parenting within the Peace Testimony: Practical Tools for Creating a Peaceful Home

"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense…

Megan Ottman

Peacemaking in Tough Times

As I write this, three months have passed since the attack on our country. In this period we have witnessed…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Some Musings on Pacifism

The excellent contributions on the events of September 11 in the December Friends Journal prompt these musings on "pacifism," a…

Edward F. Snyder

Terrorism and the Practical Idealist

When I encountered Quakerism for the first time as a young man, I was struck by the sheer boldness of…

George R. Lakey

Words and the Word

God is mystery. The Divine is transcendent—bigger than our minds can comprehend, and also infinitely "other" than human. The Divine…

Marty Paxson Grundy

Naming Divinity

Ursula K. LeGuin has a very short story entitled "She Un-Names Them" in which Eve removes the names that Adam…

Donna Glee Williams

Young Adult Quaker Ministers: Mary Fisher and Elizabeth Fletcher

"I believe that some young people have old souls and that these young people become seasoned spiritual leaders at an…

Barbara Luetke-Stahlman

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…