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Love Is Rigorous

I am embarrassed but glad to confess that for many years now, a watchword for me has been the title…

Brian Drayton

The Sign of Jonah and the Witness of Friends Today

Few people in any religious community will deny that our times require clear-eyed, honest diagnosis informed by the guidance of…

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June/July Books 2012

A Lively Faith: Reflections on Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative) By Callie Marsh. FGC QuakerPress, 2011. 102 pages. $14.95/paperback. Reviewed…

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Living in the Life and Power

I have always been drawn by the words of George Fox, recorded in his Journal, refusing the commissioners’ request of…

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Thomas Kelly

Thomas Kelly is the first of four activist Friends that I intend to write about in this column over the…

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Mary Penington (1625-1682)

Mary Penington’s name is usually mentioned first because she was married to Isaac, and secondarily as mother of Gulielma, William…

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Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) may be just the spiritual companion you need. Though she is a person of breathtaking energy…

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Margaret Fell

My abiding goal in these columns is to direct readers’ attention to important spiritual resources within the Quaker tradition. Margaret…

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Douglas Steere: The Mystical in the Everyday

A conviction has slowly grown upon me over the years that Douglas Steere is the most sustaining of 20th century…

Brian Drayton

James Nayler: The Lessons of Discernment

Friends encounter James Nayler mostly as an object lesson. They tend to know that he was an important early leader,…

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