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Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years

Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…

Why Do Friends Need Diversity?

The discernment of God’s will is not easy. A person’s hearing of the "still, small voice" in silent worship is…

New Seekers and the Welcoming Community

Seekers" is what Quakers have always been. We have a rich history of seeking God (the Divine, the Light); seeking…

Newness to Quakerism

Is it only the newcomer among us who needs the welcoming and orientation within our meetings? Doesn’t any Quaker experience…

War on Whom?

We live in troubling times.

A Meeting Housed in a Condominium

Faith can move mountains, or in this case, move a monthly meeting from a classroom to its own space, a…

An Open and Affirming Community

Sixty-two of us gathered in prayerful silence. This was the culmination of our searching, of seven long years of workshops…

Be Thou Perfect

Perfection is not a static state of self-satisfaction. It not only permits growth, it requires growth. Did not Christ grow…

New England Friends in Unity With Nature (NEFUN) Committee

The current work of the NEFUN Committee supports discernment around New England monthly meetings of the faith and practice of…

At the End of the Road in Hawaii

Verne and Shirley Beechill, resident hosts of Honolulu (Hawaii) Meeting, drove up the dry coast of Oahu towards the community…

Difficult Times in Ramallah

This is a difficult note to write. So much has happened and there is so much to say. It has…

As Way Opened

Marietta’s little daughter was murdered. Through her anger, grief, and devastation she struggled until she found peace with her God…
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