Nonviolence: The Law of Love

Mention the Middle East, the Congo, or Northern Ireland, and eyes roll, shoulders rise, and expressions of helplessness take over…

Cynthia Fisk

U.S. Quakers: Hybrid Corn?

Years ago I heard our gifted Quaker economist-philosopher-poet Kenneth Boulding compare U.S. Quakers to hybrid corn. His interesting observation was…

William Edgerton

Emily Greene Balch, Pioneering Peacemaker

Emily Greene Balch, along with her friend and inspiration, Jane Addams, was one of two women with Quaker connections to…

Margery Post Abbott

Dilemmas of Our Peace Testimony

The history of the Quaker Peace Testimony is full of dilemmas and never a simple doctrine. Indeed, it seems to…

Judith Reynolds Brown

The Unbowed Head

When they fight, animals of the same species often have an instinctive way of submitting and signaling obeisance to others…

Ken Southwood

Being Silent

Last Sunday was another of those meetings for worship. In the first 20 minutes when the children were present no…

Chris King

Grieving in the Light: Friend’s Ministry to the Divorced

I was recently divorced from my husband, who is an active member of our meeting, as am I. It was…

Lynn Johnson

Prayer Vigil No. 88

It was a Sunday this past February, only the second time that I’d been at the vigil since early December,…

John Andrew Gallery

Friends as Healers

Twenty Friends sit comfortably in a circle in the warming sunshine of Powell House retreat center. While some Friends gaze…

Bobbi Bailin and Buffy Curtis

The Ministry of the Written Word

Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) is an international consortium of Quaker book publishers, book sellers, authors, and periodical publishers. This…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Be Thou Perfect

Perfection is not a static state of self-satisfaction. It not only permits growth, it requires growth. Did not Christ grow…

Kirsten Backstrom

The Miracle of Forgiveness: A Journey of the Heart

Seeds, whether planted by the human hand or sown by the wind, endure. Covered by earth they rest unseen, waiting…

Roxy Jacobs

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…

Scott Martin

The Making of A Western Quaker Reader: An Interview with Anthony Manousos

In 2000, A Western Quaker Reader: Writings by and about Independent Quakers in the Western United States, 1929-1999 was published…

Kenneth Sutton

Arlene Kelly

One of the difficult issues for Quakers is leadership. Somehow we know we need leaders, yet we are all supposed…

Kara Nowell

New England Friends in Unity With Nature (NEFUN) Committee

The current work of the NEFUN Committee supports discernment around New England monthly meetings of the faith and practice of…

Janet Clark

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…