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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…
Remember that You are Dust and to Dust You Shall Return
Wednesday morning at 6 am my alarm woke me from warm, senseless sleep to face a cold, rainy, and intimidating…
Manzanar: A Japanese Camp
Manzanar means apple orchard in Spanish. There was a significant community in Owens Valley on the east side of the…
Letter to a Friend reading Reinhold Niebuhr
A friend recently wrote that he had been reading essays that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote for various periodicals in the 1920s…
Anthropology: Pursuing the Quaker Connection
As a graduate student in dance anthropology at London’s Roehampton University, I had my first mid-life crisis. Actually, make that…
A Quaker Reconsiders the Draft
When the Universal Military Training and Service Act expired in June 1973, I was overjoyed, like most Friends in the…
My Visit to Gaza with the Gaza Freedom March
On the first anniversary of the war on Gaza, known as Operation Cast Lead, close to 1,400 people from more…
Our New Best Friend?
Written a few weeks after the Inauguration of President Barack Obama last year, this is reprinted with permission from the…
Into the Abyss and Back
Held in the Light: Norman Morrison’s Sacrifice for Peace and His Family’s Journey of Healing By Anne Morrison Welsh, with…
Concerned about Israel and/or Palestine: Perhaps We Are Part of the Problem
In October 2008, I traveled to the West Bank on behalf of Friends World Committee for Consultation-Europe and Middle East…
Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: The Risks that Faith Asks
On April 29 of this year, I was blessed to attend the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI) in Washington,…
Up on the Mountaintop
The morning was freezing cold in Mitchellville, Maryland, as we drove to the train station. Maria and I had flown…
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