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Sustainability for the Rest of Us

As I commit increasingly to obedience to God, I have become more confused about my place in the movement towards…

Please respect the need for privacy

Every year, I eagerly await the Gathering. It is the one week of the year that is completely mine. I…

Strengths, Weaknesses, and Clerking

I was minding my own business one day when the idea came to me that someday, someone would ask me…

Accessibility and Worship

Introduction Most people will find themselves with a serious long-term limitation of mobility, hearing, sight, mental capacity, or emotional functioning…

Love and Accountability

I started thinking about issues of responsibility for people with progressive, long-term disabilities because of my friend Teddie. (For Teddie…

Unbounded Compassion

On my first day at the 2003 Washington, D.C., Animal Rights Conference, I noticed a young woman pushing a teenage…

No Doubt

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. (Jer. 31:3) I don’t usually feel sleepy in meeting for worship,…

The Fruits of Service at the Gathering: A First-Timer's Lesson

The prompting came during a time of worship I had set aside for seeking clarity for a ministry to which…

Including Deaf Quakers

It has been my experience that when Quakers discuss diversity, they usually think of those of color or those with…

Raising a Deaf Child

Our adventure into diversity began as an arrogance of the human spirit. If this comes across as very personal, it…

Addressing Hearing Loss among Friends

About 15 percent of people in the United States have at least mild hearing loss in their better ear; hearing…

Bob Philbrook

Bob Philbrook is as vibrant, confident, and energetic as anyone you’ll ever meet. He also happens to have gotten polio…
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