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What is Worship?

Meeting for worship is the heart and center of a Quaker meeting and of being Quaker, but what do Quakers…

Marti Matthews

The Word and the Spirit: Scripture and Context in Theology

"The principle source of truth must be the Truth itself. When we trace a stream to the place where it…

Keith R. Maddock

A Christian Vision of the Earth

We are by nature Earth creatures, lifted from the mud of the ground and stirred to life by the breath…

Ellen M. Ross

The Christ Spirit and Forgiveness

In my religious tradition, that of the unprogrammed branch of the Religious Society of Friends, many feel comfortable because there…

Alicia Adams

On Authority, A New Apologia

Can science and morality explain why something is holy?

Jacob Stone

Homosexuality: A Plea to Read the Bible Together

Homosexuality is the issue that most threatens to create new schisms in the world of Quakers. Yet it could be the controversy that will draw us all more closely together.

Douglas C. Bennett

''What are Friends Called to Today?

Go deep. Go deep, dear Friends. Touch the bedrock. Find the Source from which springs your own true, deep calling.…

Patricia McBee

A Practice of Such Gentle Collective Ecstasy

I have come early to Friends meeting this morning. I sit alone in a room that is sparse and welcoming,…

Nathanie Mahlberg

A Response to September Eleventh

As a Quaker, a pacifist, and one of the 9 percent of U.S. citizens who dissent from our country’s current…

Stephen G. Cary

Quaker Christian Ways and Roots

Returning to a comprehensive Christianity of behavior and belief.

Donne Hayden