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Towards Deeper Communion across Our Theological Divides

Five years after Friends Meeting at Cambridge approved taking same-sex couples under its care, my life partner, Polly, and I…

The Father

"How is it that ye sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?" "And…

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…

Owning the Lord’s Prayer

In 1997, my wife and I decided on a radical midlife career change. Over the next year, we quit our…

The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships

We Quakers have been wrestling with the issue of same-sex relationships for some time, at least since Alastair Heron and…

Testing a Father's Faith

Perhaps no Old Testament story is more controversial than the sacrifice of Isaac (for biblical text, see page 14). A…

To Friends: A Call to Duty

Friendship is an abundant self-expression of giving, helping, caring, and expecting, existing in every corner of our world. So enticing…

An Opportunity to Laugh with Sarah

The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house…

Abraham: A Less-than-Perfect Choice

That’s exactly what I don’t like about so many Bible stories—they’re unfair." The Friend who made this comment has a…

The Passion

By the time I saw Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, much had been written about the film’s violence.…

God Is in the Mouth of the Wolf

I think I must have been born searching for God. People tell me that just as my head crowned during…

Interpreting Religious Experience

Quakers do not get religion secondhand, but aim always to be experiential, to wait upon the Light, and then to…
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