Death and Dying

The Death of Michael Lambert

On June 8, 2007, the Indianapolis Star reports that the Indiana Parole Board has voted unanimously to deny clemency for…

Reasons to Never Give Up

There are days when depression threatens to engulf me and I feel like giving up. At such times I remind…

The Divine Palette

An old and dear Friend died this week. And it made me think, once iagain, about the Light Within. My…

Harry's Light

The diagnosis came into our world shattering our stability, our plans, and our future. The gentle, soft-spoken doctor explained to…

Visiting Agatha

I was an untrained amateur leading a self- help group for the mentally ill. Statistics were grim: in my first…

Threshold Choirs

Five years ago, after attending a workshop by Richard Lee on Meetings for Healing, I started a Meeting for Healing…

Could Any Friend Really Understand what It Feels Like for a Quaker Mom to have a Child who Is a Soldier?

Though I grew up and then served as pastor in a different denomination, I’ve been a lifelong pacifist, culminating in…

Sidewalk Worship

For Quakers, 2003 was a year of protest and political activism. Understandably, the vast majority of it focused on events…

The poetry of God

I greatly appreciated the wide variety of perspectives in your March issue on the nature of the Divine. As a…

Consolations of Light

My daughter Alice’s life was changed forever last summer when we returned home from an idyllic vacation in upstate New…

To Live Fully until Death: Lessons from the Dying

My Quakerism and my work for the past 25 years as a hospice nurse have informed and strengthened each other.…

Musings on Aging and Death

A recent illness has forced me not to deny the facts of my apparent mortality any longer. Culturally, through a…
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