Quakers

Peace in the World, Peace among Friends

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not…

Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller

In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…

Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years

Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…

Making Peace: Telling Truth

From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…

Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword

The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…

Barbara Mays

Barbara Mays, a musician, writer/editor and mother, describes herself first as a Hoosier. She returned to Richmond, Indiana, in the…

Bringing Business into the Light

It is a fair generalization that Quakers, at least U.S. Quakers, view the pursuit of business suspiciously. Jay Marshall said…

Mickey Edgerton

Muriel (Mickey) Wesner Edgerton is openly self-effacing. Punctuated by her distinctive giggle, she characterizes herself as a "blabbermouth," an "extrovert,"…

Dulany Ogden Bennett

With William Penn, 300 years ago, Dulany Ogden Bennett’s ancestors came to what is now Chester County, in suburban Philadelphia.…

U.S. Quakers: Hybrid Corn?

Years ago I heard our gifted Quaker economist-philosopher-poet Kenneth Boulding compare U.S. Quakers to hybrid corn. His interesting observation was…

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…

Arlene Kelly

One of the difficult issues for Quakers is leadership. Somehow we know we need leaders, yet we are all supposed…
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