Friends Meetings

Providing a Warm Welcome

My husband, Adam, and I were blessed to serve as co-directors of Powell House, New York Yearly Meeting’s retreat and…

Vibrant Meetings Grow the Religious Society of Friends

In 2007, Friends World Committee for Consultation reported 35,413 unprogrammed Friends, about one-tenth of 1 percent of the U.S. population.…

Young Families and Quakerism: Will the Center Hold?

Recently I was invited to help plan an adult religious education session at a meeting that expressed interest in revitalizing…

Beyond Words: Reflections on the 2006 Section of the Americas Annual Meeting

While walking down the cobblestone streets of Antigua, Guatemala, I started to reflect on what the 2006 Annual Meeting meant…

Taking in a Big Breath of Guatemala

Fried plantains; fireflies lighting the night sky; marimbas; tamales; pineapple juice trickling down my chin and a pale green sauce…

Learning from Salvadoran Friends

After the 2006 FWCC Section of the Americas meeting in Guatemala, we joined a small group of other U.S. Friends…

A Snapshot of Friends in the Americas

Are Friends growing or shrinking? The answer, of course, is, "It all depends"—on where, over what time, and by how…

Sharing about Personal Faith

My first FWCC experience was the 1999 Section of the Americas Annual Meeting in Whittier, California. The theological and cultural…

The Africa Section of FWCC in 2007

Take 125 people from seven countries and put them together in Kampala, Uganda, and you’ve got the FWCC Africa Section…

The Asia West Pacific Section of FWCC

The baby or the giant? Of the four Sections, Asian West Pacific Section has the smallest number of Quakers, and…

Convergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’

Have you ever sensed that the earliest Quakers had a fire that seems to be missing now? What do we…

Whither the Wider Quaker Fellowship?

When I took a position as Program Secretary of the Wider Quaker Fellowship (WQF) in 1998, I was only somewhat…
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