The retreat is summer camp for grownups in October. We meditate. We listen to deep wisdom. We walk mindfully. After […]
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Anne C. Highland is a clinical psychologist; her private practice centers on the interface between psychology and spirituality. She attends Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesThe ‘Honest to God’ Debate and Friends
The paperback Honest to God, by John A. T. Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich in England, has apparently sold more quickly […]
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Only the Wounded Can Heal
At a meeting for worship a Friend quoted the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, as saying: “Only the wounded can heal.” My […]
Elizabeth Watson is a member of Minneapolis (Minn.) Meeting. This is the unrevised text of an article that appeared in Friends Journal in the July 1-15, 1976, issue. It is excerpted from a talk she gave at the 1976 sessions of Southeastern Yearly Meeting in Florida.
Posted in: FeaturesDoorways
Doorways are so commonplace in everyday life that we scarcely give them a thought, unless a door sticks or a […]
Moreland Smith is a member of Princeton (N.J.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesSome Thoughts on Mystical Experiences
Yesterday I went for a walk by the lake, and I had a mystical experience—that’s what I am calling it […]
Amy Kesegich attends Cleveland (Ohio) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesDouglas Steere: The Mystical in the Everyday
A conviction has slowly grown upon me over the years that Douglas Steere is the most sustaining of 20th century […]
Brian Drayton, an ecologist working in science education, is a member and a recorded minister of Weare (N.H.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesNudges and Leadings
The interior presence of Christ moved within us and centered and renewed our dispersed lives and from time to time […]
Marguerite Reiss Kern, a member of Red Cedar Meeting in Lansing, Mich., is a former librarian who has written for 11 newspapers. She lived in Alaska from 1979 to 1999, including two years in the far north in an athabascan village.
Posted in: FeaturesAn Aspect of Continuing Revelation?
Since the dawn of history, religious traditions have been giving birth to poets and mystics. Quakerism also has had its […]
Judith Reynolds Brown, a member of University Meeting in Seattle, Wash., is poetry editor of Friends Journal and the author of A Glove on my Heart: Encounters with the Mentally Ill.
Posted in: FeaturesMystical or Not at All
Throughout history, some men and women have been opened morefully than others to the mystery of creation, to a deeper […]
Richard W. Siebels, a long-term attender of Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, completed the program "On Being a Spiritual Nurturer" offered by the School of the Spirit. © 2002 Richard W. Siebels
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The Importance of Noise During Silent Worship by Ben Handy
In Which Today’s To‐dos Become Ta‐dahs! by Kat Griffith
Scenes from a Meetinghouse by Gunilla Norris
A Quaker Response to Gun Violence by Peter Murchison
The Land Remembers: Connecting with Native People through the Land by Paula Palmer
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How to See by Alice Carlton
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