Healing

Litter Picking

Okay, I’ll fess up. There’s no hiding it—all the gang members who hang out in our neighborhood park already know…

Mending the World

Our world is torn and broken. Many parts of it are not working. There are great tears and gashes, holes…

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience

Hideko Tamura is a second soprano with Rogue Valley Peace Choir, a retired social worker, an author, and a survivor…

God: The Ultimate Vacuum Trap

Yesterday I was cold. Not surprising, as we live at 6,000 feet altitude in an inadequately insulated house with no…

”But Who Is My Neighbor?

It was Wednesday night at the 2006 Friends General Conference Gathering in Tacoma, Washington. I had been spending the evening…

Particularity and the Poison Tree

There is a parable that I learned from the Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield about a poison tree. It goes something…

Friends and the Interfaith Peace Movement

Our country and the world were shaken to the core by the events of September 11, 2001. In response, we…

Love and Accountability

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

Hiroshima Cherry Blossoms and Nagasaki Azaleas, 2006

The Hiroshima Peace Park was bordered by cherry trees in full bloom when I visited the city in April. Their…

The Heart of My Enemy: Rwandan Friends Rebuilding after Genocide

If, for example, you see your children being killed by machetes and that stays in your mind, that can cause…

Speaking across the Divide: Cecile Nyiramana at St. Louis Meeting, June 29, 2005

Cecile Nyiramana, secretary to the legal representative (akin to general secretary) of Rwanda Yearly Meeting, visited the United States as…

Consolations of Light

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