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Lillian and George Willoughby

Raspberries, bread, serendipity, and nonviolence. Lillian and George Willoughby, members of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, were engaged with many projects…

Lynne Shivers

How Quaker Are We? Reflections on the Character of George Fox University

September 9, 1891, marked the official opening of Pacific College in Newberg, Oregon—later to be renamed George Fox College and…

JamieRJohnson

Lillian's Choices

A family council took place in a large Manhattan loft on December 26, 2003. George and Lillian Willoughby were discussing…

Gregory A. Barnes

Fox News: George Fox Speaking

Our favorite news anchor goes on location with Will "The Quill" Penn and an assortment of dubiously fact-checked historical figures.

Donald W. McCormick

Sleeping with Margaret Fell: A Pilgrimage to 1652 Quaker Country

A pilgrimage to the "1652 Country" retraces the footsteps of early Quaker women.

Maggie O’Neill

Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword

The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…

Paul Buckley

Interpreting Religious Experience

Quakers do not get religion secondhand, but aim always to be experiential, to wait upon the Light, and then to…

Patricia A. Williams

The Willoughbys on Pacifism

Ironically, few issues have divided Quakers more than war-making and peacemaking. A favorite image of Quakers in the wider world…

Gregory A. Barnes

On The Value Of Conflict

Unresolved conflict can leave a relationship so broken that people are unable to find a way back to one other.

GeorgeRLakey

Affirming Ivy

How way opened at George School to support transgender students.

Laura Noel