Jesus

The Lord's Prayer Revisited

In February 2005, Friends Journal published an article by Paul Buckley, "Owning the Lord’s Prayer," in which he offered his…

Unclean!

The sun was pressing down as hard as it could on the Earth that day, till it felt that my…

What Jesus Means to Me

As an Orthodox Jewish boy in Manchester, England, I was taught that Christianity was the religion of our oppressors. It…

Jesus as the Second Option

Times change. Perhaps certain aspects of reality don’t change, but times do change. As a poet I’d like to have…

The Father

"How is it that ye sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?" "And…

The Passion of the Christ: Thoughts Prompted by a Discussion about the Film

At a local cinema, in a small town in New Zealand, The Passion of the Christ was showing. While I…

Jesus and Quakerism

Leer en español Because we have no creed, Quakers cannot claim uniformity of belief about the facts of Jesus’ life…

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."…

Mickey Edgerton

Muriel (Mickey) Wesner Edgerton is openly self-effacing. Punctuated by her distinctive giggle, she characterizes herself as a "blabbermouth," an "extrovert,"…

Drinking the Living Water: Pilgrimage to Taize

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

Be Thou Perfect

Perfection is not a static state of self-satisfaction. It not only permits growth, it requires growth. Did not Christ grow…

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…
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