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Conversations from the Heartland

A few years ago, I surprised myself and some friends—I sent out an e-mail to my homeschooling buddies, almost entirely…

The Journey to Answering That of God in Everyone

I’m probably one of the few Friends who has an aversion to the term "that of God in every one."…

Drinking the Living Water: Pilgrimage to Taize

A convinced Friend and former Catholic, I never thought I would agree with the pope about anything . . .…

Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell may be one of the few Friends whose clearness committee didn’t clear him on the first try! He…

The Value of Stillness

Be no more than God hath made thee. Give over thine own willing; give over thine own running; give over…

Seeking Justice – Praying for Peace

And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him. Then the Lord…

Difficult Times in Ramallah

This is a difficult note to write. So much has happened and there is so much to say. It has…

Christmas Newsletter

As I sit down to write this Christmas [2000] newsletter, I cannot help but reflect on last Christmas, which I…

Heron Reflections

On the road home from the wedding of Muriel Bishop and Douglas Summers, reunited after many years apart, a beautiful,…

Gifts of a Weekend in Silence

I don’t know exactly what attracted me to the idea of a silent retreat last April at Woolman Hill in…

Father for a Day

When I first realized that my journey from Catholicism to Quakerism had reached a point of no return, one of…

“Meeting for Learning” at Princeton Friends School

As the founding head of Princeton Friends School, I’ve been asked time and again during the past 12 years the…
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