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How to Be an Inclusive Quaker

The unwritten norms of speech and silence.

Valerie Brown

Welcoming the Strong Black Woman among Us

The energy to appear strong and the socially imposed obligation to rise above it all can be exhausting.

Valerie Brown

Travel as Sacred Journey

As Quakers, we are called to see that of God in each person. And what if the person is the…

Valerie Brown

On Being Single and Quaker: Opposing Forces?

As I look off into the horizon of a youthful 50 that is drawing near, my mind fast-forwards into the…

Valerie Brown

Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through the Quaker Clearness Committee

By Valerie Brown. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 446), 2017. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this short pamphlet, Valerie Brown introduces readers…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Books June/July 2013

Discernment: Living Under Divine Guidance North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Journal (number 6), 2012. 62 pages. Free download at www.ncymc.org/journal. Reviewed…

Staff

Books, August 2013

A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles By Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrated by Wietske Vriezen. Plum Blossom Books, 2012.…

Staff

Continuing Work

Our introduction to the March 2017 issue on Race and Anti-Racism.

Martin Kelley

A Great People To Be Gathered: The View From Pendle Hill

In the olden days, when I was here, Quakers did not applaud at lectures. Remember those days? I was asked…

Parker J. Palmer

Among Friends: Getting Over Ourselves

Our introduction to the March 2020 issue.

Martin Kelley