Friends Testimonies

On the Peace Testimony

This is the text of a speech by Richard Hathaway to an interfaith service in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November…

Staying Aligned with Our Values

As I write, I’ve just returned from the Friends General Conference Gathering in Amherst, Massachusetts, where, among other things, I…

Favorite Writings on Simplicity

Pure Land Buddhists are devoted to the Amida Buddha, who in his compassion for the difficulties people face in achieving…

Should War Tax Resistance Be a Corporate Testimony?

At New York Yearly Meeting in 1999, I was given a message: The Spirit calls Friends to claim a corporate…

An Iconoclast's View of Quaker Outreach

While I am honored to be giving the Rufus Jones lecture this evening, by choosing to invite me, Haverford College…

With Malice toward None, Charity toward All

For a while after Jack Powelson’s article entitled "Why I am Leaving Quakers" (FJ April 2002) came out, a number…

A Friend’s Testimony on Domestic Violence?

We are called upon to love the loveless and the unlovable, to reach out to the racists and the torturers,…

Jesus as a Friend

Many members of the Religious Society of Friends love the ambiguity of the term friend as it shifts between companion…

The Peaceful Pedal Cab

Friends General Conference provided the opportunity for an unconventional form of peace witness at the Gathering this year by allowing…

Queries from Afghanistan

The war between 72 nations has left all in regret. Because they have not seen truth, they have created fairy…

German Quakers and the Trial of George Grosz

It was 1930, and in Germany the Weimar Republic was visibly in a state of imminent collapse as an ever-intensifying…

Pacifism that Doesn't Pull Punches

As far as I know, I come from a long line of bad Quakers. Only two stories have come down…
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