Lifestyles

Simplicity and Convenience

For quite some time now I have had only an intuitive grasp of the difference between simplicity and convenience. The…

The Move to Happy Valley

We’re too young, but let’s look at some Quaker retirement communities anyway and put our names down—it may take ten…

An Approach in Regions with Few Friends

In Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) we are fortunate in having a good number of couples about the same age (between…

Care of the Dying: A Spiritual Discipline

Attending the death of a loved one is a painful, sometimes disturbing experience. Frequently it has a deeply mysterious quality,…

The Contours of Worship

In Salt Lake Valley, where I lived for six years during the early 1990s, mountain topography and temperature differentials often…

Travel as Sacred Journey

As Quakers, we are called to see that of God in each person. And what if the person is the…

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."…

Finding the Way Through

Stehekin, a remote mountain village fixed in an earlier time, taught me how to survive in the world today. Located…

Protest Walk Gone Awry

It was a hot, early fall afternoon, and we had stopped near the U.S./Canadian border to get gas and refresh…

Arlene Kelly

One of the difficult issues for Quakers is leadership. Somehow we know we need leaders, yet we are all supposed…

Blessings by Accident

Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for…

How to Be Happy

The basic question addressed by religion is not "Does God exist?" but rather "How can we find eternal happiness in…
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