Nature

Poetry

A September Breakfast in the Piedmont

A grasshopper sat on my toaster today, / Looking puzzled yet nonchalant. Paul Murphy
Among Friends

Resonant Lessons from Nature, Scripture, and Experience

Introduction to our April issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

I Paint to Reclaim My Light

What is Quakerly about my art? Or would I consider my artwork Quaker art? Anissa New-Walker
Online Features

Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Utopia

"Sometimes I forget how much Virginia Woolf is one of us." Diane Reynolds

David Scofield Wilson

Wilson—David Scofield Wilson, 88, on December 7, 2019, peacefully at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif. He was born in…
Student Voices Project

Student Voices 2016 Option 1: Building Community

What are the important elements of building a loving, safe, and supportive community? How do you contribute to maintaining these… Staff

The Machine in the Garden

On Mothers Day this spring, a small group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers visited Wellsboro Monthly Meeting in Tioga County…

Green Jesus: The Meaning of Easter

My good friend Reverend Julia Jarvis, who officiated at the wedding of my wife and me and the baptism of…

The Eye of God

I have been fortunate enough to have encountered God several times in my life. This speaks less about my holiness,…

Spiritual Journey

I was asked to present my spiritual journey at an adult forum after meeting for worship. My instructions were that…

An Easter Epiphany

Good Friday morning wading on the beach, Gulf waves are formidable. After several days of a very high wind, shells…

I Am Who I Am

[Moses] came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame…
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