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Learning from John Woolman, as a Christian Quaker

A passage from John Woolman's Journal gives a Friend the language for describing her new sense of empowerment.

Helene Pollock

The Solace of History: Reflections on Quakers and the Environment

Sometimes I feel painfully out-of-step with the world around me. Perhaps I’d have fit in better in some other era,…

Ellen M. Ross

How to Talk about Earthcare

Talking about Earthcare with Friends and other people of faith has been one of our main tasks since setting out…

Louis Cox

A Tribute to the Gathering – And to My Father

Nine years ago, my father and I drove from our home in Philadelphia to the 2000 Friends General Conference Gathering…

Carl Sigmond

March 2021 Books

Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

By Drew Lawson. Inner Light Books, 2020. 158 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $10/eBook. The subtitle of Movings of Divine Love is…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

The Coffee Crisis and Fair Trade

As economic globalization has accelerated in recent years, and its negative impacts have become more apparent, Friends have been called…

Erbin Crowell

The Quaker Peace Testimony, Economics, and the Common Good

Quakerism and Economics of the Common Good English Quaker John Bellers (1654- 1725) was the first social thinker to advance…

Keith Helmuth

”The ‘Peace for Earth’ Walk

After considerable prayer and discernment we, Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox, are about to embark on a spiritual journey that…

Ruah Swennerfelt

Back to the Future

This is a strange image—backward and forward—but perhaps a helpful one for Friends in 2006. As I was re-reading John…

Kara Newell

Features

Safe Meetings Don’t Avoid Conflict

Confronting people who make a meeting unsafe.

Donald W. McCormick