Prayer and Meditation

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…

How Do You Recognize a Divine Revelation?

Two years ago, Baltimore Yearly Meeting published a booklet, A Quaker Response to Christian Fundamentalism, which described beliefs typical of…

Meeting God in a Bank

Shortly after my 30th birthday, I met God for the first time in my life. I was in a bank…

Owning the Lord’s Prayer

In 1997, my wife and I decided on a radical midlife career change. Over the next year, we quit our…

Out of Silence

Dusk mustered forces in the shrubbery when I pulled out of my friends’ driveway. It was deep into 6 p.m.…

Natural Quiet at Goose Creek

Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And…

Hijacked by a Prayer

Several years ago this somewhat disorganized, go-with-the-flow, inspiration-over-discipline kind of Quaker surprised herself, and probably God: she committed to a…

A Healing Presence

"Come Lord, be with us And bless what thou hast given to us." These words came to me again in…

Dear Mum

Note: This is a letter addressed to the author’s deceased mother, Virginia Hutton, shortly after her death on July 30,…

How I Learned to Mind My Own Business and Get Out of God's Way

She walks into the classroom. Her hair hangs carelessly like a curtain around her face. She is wearing blue jeans…

Praying with Body and Soul

Body and Soul being as thoroughly linked as they are, one may ponder on the constraints that straight-backed benches, pews,…

Quaker Spiritual Disciplines for Hard Times

an the spiritual disciplines of early Friends help us through hard times in the 21st century? The very question of…
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