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Tree Trust

I’m sitting under the dense canopy of a Mexican elderberry tree. There are two such trees in the front yard…

Alicia Adams

2018 Quakers in Politics Web Panel

The upcoming U.S. Congressional mid-term elections already have at least seven Quaker candidates for office. How does their Quaker faith inform these candidates’ desires to run for Congress? What advice would they have for other Quakers wanting to run for office in the future?

Staff

Clarity

Wedding preparations get complicated after a long afternoon with the clearness committee.

Kathleen Bell

The Gluten-Free Pizza Bully

A Friend averts a street brawl.

David Morse

Hard-Wired for Hope

The war between Palestinians and Israelis continues with no end in sight. The combatants behave almost as if they have…

Earl Whitted

Finding Peace after Trauma

A seeker finds release from fear and pain in Friends worship.

Albert Bellg

Joan Eloise Hammerly Tjossem

Tjossem—Joan Eloise Hammerly Tjossem, 100, on December 26, 2021, in hospice care at WesleyLife’s the Village, a senior living community…

Staff

The Gift of Thinking Differently

Larry was a jerk. Everyone thought so, though we never used that word. We called him eccentric, cantankerous, or rough…

James Mulholland

Gifts of a Weekend in Silence

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

Mary Stacie

Gifts of Eldering

I had planned this year to take a break from FGC Gathering. Polly, my partner of 27 years, couldn’t come…

Wendy C. Sanford