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The Passion of the Christ: Thoughts Prompted by a Discussion about the Film

At a local cinema, in a small town in New Zealand, The Passion of the Christ was showing. While I…

Tanya Garland

Book Club

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more…

Staff

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Lessons from My Quaker Ancestors and the People They Enslaved

A Friend studies the history of slavery and abolition in his family.

Os Cresson

Poetry

Morning Office

FJ Poetry: "Oh Lord, This morning is not so beautiful..."

John Pierce

June/July 2025 Books

Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

By Mirabai Starr. HarperOne, 2024. 240 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Books about integrating the Divine into our mundane lives are always…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Features

Through the Clouds of Unknowing

An inward journey through clouds of uncertainty.

Keith R. Maddock

Simple Riches: Reflections on the Work of the Quaker Parent

Judy: When Denis and I were asked to give the Michener lecture, I was daunted by the realization that we…

Judy and Denis Nicholson Asselin

Firbank Fell's Challenge for 21st Century Quakerism

Sunday, June 13, 1652, about 1,000 people gathered on an isolated hillside in rural northern England to listen to a…

Peter Blood-Patterson

The Prophecy of Mary Peisley Neale

Mary Peisley was born into a Quaker family in Ballymore, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1717. At age 27, she was…

Paul Buckley

Be Still and Cool: Quakerism and the Passionate Life

Summer solstice. Miles above the Arctic Circle, on the calm Norwegian Sea, I leaned over the ship’s rail. Sunlight flared…

Heidi Hart