Quakerism Today

Should War Tax Resistance Be a Corporate Testimony?

At New York Yearly Meeting in 1999, I was given a message: The Spirit calls Friends to claim a corporate…

An Iconoclast's View of Quaker Outreach

While I am honored to be giving the Rufus Jones lecture this evening, by choosing to invite me, Haverford College…

Sit Down, Thee's Rockin' the Boat

An attender has been speaking in meeting for ten minutes. He reaches in his pocket, pulls out a newspaper article,…

With Malice toward None, Charity toward All

For a while after Jack Powelson’s article entitled "Why I am Leaving Quakers" (FJ April 2002) came out, a number…

Towards a Peaceable Community: An Invitation to Co- Creation

Being a Quaker is my primary identity, and I consider my monthly meeting to be my primary community. My devotion…

Moving toward Wholeness: Addressing Race among Friends

George Fox admonished Friends "to know one another in that which is eternal." In building our communities and in providing…

Addressing Race in Red Cedar Meeting

In the early 1990s I began attending Red Cedar Meeting in East Lansing, Michigan, with my then partner Deborah, an…

Racial Inequality: Painfully Present among Friends

We believe there is that of God in every person, and thus we believe in human equality before God. Friends…

Friends, Race, and Systemic Change

In preparation for being a part of your discussion on the important work against racism, I have read the material…

Quakerism, Earth-Centered Spirituality, and the Goddess

My earliest memory is of standing at the kitchen sink in an old farmhouse in Iowa where my grandmother held…

Including Deaf Quakers

It has been my experience that when Quakers discuss diversity, they usually think of those of color or those with…

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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