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Challenging Certainty

I believe that Friends are called to reflect anew on our relationship with animals. This concern dates back at least…

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…

North Carolina Friends grapple with integrity regarding sexuality

We would like to inform the wider Quaker community of some difficult issues that Friends in North Carolina have been…

The Cross and the Cuckoo’s Egg

I have followed with interest the rise, among U.S. churches, of scapegoating. Men who love men, women who love women,…

Towards Deeper Communion across Our Theological Divides

Five years after Friends Meeting at Cambridge approved taking same-sex couples under its care, my life partner, Polly, and I…

Healing in Meeting for Worship at the 1995 FGC Gathering

What is the ground and foundation of the gathered meeting? In the last analysis, it is, I am convinced, the…

The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships

We Quakers have been wrestling with the issue of same-sex relationships for some time, at least since Alastair Heron and…

A Glimpse of FLGC in Transition

A hundred people wait in worship while the FLGC co-clerks confer in whispers at a table in the front of…

Jack's Last Day

The morning before Jack died I drew the death card and knew without question its symbolic as well as literal…

An Open and Affirming Community

Sixty-two of us gathered in prayerful silence. This was the culmination of our searching, of seven long years of workshops…

Concern Raised About Bisexuality

Friends attitudes toward bisexuality and toward bisexuals and homosexuals in our midst was discussed by some 130 persons at two…