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Can Our Branches Be Olive Branches?

Douglas Gwyn

Traveling in Turkey

I. Turkish Countryside, December 2000 Minarets point past Greek, Roman, Christian ruins, across dry landscapes. Sun-leathered farmers till small fields,…

Caroline Balderston Parry

A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine

For years I vowed never to return to Palestine, my birthplace, because, as a Jew—albeit a secular Jew—I felt a…

Stanley Zarowin

Jesus in Stillness and Love

In the fall of 1999 I traveled with a longtime friend to Israel. From Haifa we drove to Vered HaGalil,…

John Pitts Corry

John Dickinson (1732–1808): Quaker Statesman?

John Dickinson, statesman, author. In influential writings 1765-74, argued against British policies. Later, as a member of Continental Congress, 1774-76,…

Alice M. Hoffman

The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships

We Quakers have been wrestling with the issue of same-sex relationships for some time, at least since Alastair Heron and…

Catherine Griffith

Threading Saffron Peace through the Gates

A silent peace walk led by saffron-robed Buddhist monks and interreligious leaders was to pass through Christo’s and Jeanne Claude’s…

Tom Goodridge

Noah's Boat and the Pigeon of Peace

In the Jewish tradition in which I grew up, we have midrashim (the Hebrew plural for midrash.) A midrash is…

David H. Albert

Cultivating Right Relationship with Our Food

John Woolman urged Friends to consider whether their lifestyles might be nourishing the seeds of violence. Heeding this caution, we…

Ruah Swennerfelt

A Challenge to Friends

Susan Corson-Finnerty is away, which gives me the welcome task of preparing this column. For us at Friends Journal, November…

Robert Dockhorn