So here I am, a week late arriving home, stuck between Colombia, Guatemala, and Harrisonburg, Virginia, when our world changed.…

With William Penn, 300 years ago, Dulany Ogden Bennett’s ancestors came to what is now Chester County, in suburban Philadelphia.…

During my freshman year, I made more changes in lifestyle than I have ever made before. I was expecting a…

Stehekin, a remote mountain village fixed in an earlier time, taught me how to survive in the world today. Located…

Let’s be realistic. If present growth rates of consumption and global wealth disparity continue, those of us in the overdeveloped…

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, vengeance is mine; I will…

When my sister chose to volunteer at a Quaker program in Nicaragua, I thought about the country for the first…

It has always surprised me that there is such a thing as a Quaker Universalist Group. My understanding has been…

Language has a way of being elusive in the spiritual as well as in the secular world. Furthermore, it can…

I am a retired professor and an avid gardener. I sing a little, write a little, and I am a…

Imagine a well-loved, respected member of your meeting, say, a woman of about 70. Do you have her competent, friendly,…

In these days of frequent moves for jobs, schools, and retirement; of times when even older Quaker meetings have experienced…