Be no more than God hath made thee. Give over thine own willing; give over thine own running; give over…

After seven years of regular attendance at University Friends Meeting, Seattle, I decided to seek membership in the Religious Society…

Each summer when I was a little girl, my grand-mother’s cousin, Marjorie Williams, and her father would visit our family.…

The basic question addressed by religion is not "Does God exist?" but rather "How can we find eternal happiness in…

Verne and Shirley Beechill, resident hosts of Honolulu (Hawaii) Meeting, drove up the dry coast of Oahu towards the community…

And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him. Then the Lord…

The delicate and complex issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the American Friends Service Committee role in the Middle East…

The Oslo Accords have presented the world with misleading images of peace [between Israel and the Palestinians], and now we…

This is a difficult note to write. So much has happened and there is so much to say. It has…

On the road home from the wedding of Muriel Bishop and Douglas Summers, reunited after many years apart, a beautiful,…

Not coming from a prayer-oriented family or community, I found the idea of praying for someone vaguely embarrassing. "What’s the…

I don’t know exactly what attracted me to the idea of a silent retreat last April at Woolman Hill in…