Friends Institutions

The Friends Committee on Unity with Nature Center

The FCUN Center at this year’s Gathering drew many Friends for reading, video viewing, meetings, and informal discussions of current…

Racial Wounding at the Gathering

I arrived in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, excited to be attending Friends General Conference’s Gathering and looking forward to a week filled…

Divine Noises at the Gathering

The Gathering is an exercise in listening for God. Not being a particularly strong candidate for sainthood, I’m always delighted…

Missing Link Found

Blue shapes swim on the cover of the book on my desk: Walter Wink’s newest one, The Human Being: Jesus…

An Interview with Chuck Fager

Chuck Fager is clerk of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA). He has recently been appointed director of…

AFSC and the Terrorist War

American Friends Service Committee was created in war, and it has nearly as much experience and—I would say—more wisdom in…

A Gathering Scrapbook

Imagine a well-loved, respected member of your meeting, say, a woman of about 70. Do you have her competent, friendly,…

The Social Testimonies at Pendle Hill

As a newcomer to Quakerism, one of my most exciting discoveries was the Quaker social testimonies. I had heard of…

The Ministry of the Written Word

Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) is an international consortium of Quaker book publishers, book sellers, authors, and periodical publishers. This…

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…

Friends and Other Quakers

Identity as a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends, is hard won. With no liturgy to speak…

Spirituality in Action: Ethos and Ethic

I want to discuss ethos, the spiritual and moral context we create for Friends education to occur, and ethics, the…
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