Relationships

On Listening

When I ask you to listen to me and you start by giving advice, you have not done what I…

Love and Accountability

I started thinking about issues of responsibility for people with progressive, long-term disabilities because of my friend Teddie. (For Teddie…

Fighting over Money

Have you noticed that most fights involve triangles—two people or groups and a sticky issue? The sticky issue is often…

Membership in Transience

It takes me about 14 hours to get home from college. A mix of trains, cars, airplanes, and airports, the…

Reflections on Love

In February it is common to see evidence of Valentine’s Day in every supermarket and drug store. Talk of love…

Another Reflection on Marriage among Friends

Two Friends Journal articles reflecting on marriage—renewing vows and speaking plainly to those divorcing—appeared just as my husband and I…

On Being Single and Quaker: Opposing Forces?

As I look off into the horizon of a youthful 50 that is drawing near, my mind fast-forwards into the…

Beyond Consensus: The Quaker Search for God's Leading for the Group

When a group of North Americans gather to make a decision, one of three processes is usually used: the autocratic,…

We Are All Seekers

There are many ways to God. This is surely part of our Quaker tradition, and yet, like other believers, we…

Global Partnerships: Opening the Way toward Economic Justice and World Peace

On the streets of Seattle in 1999, protestors put the World Trade Organization in the spotlight and got tangled in…

Reflections on the Purpose of Marriage

For the last 40 years, marriages have been in trouble. Half of them end in divorce. Abuse is common. Disturbed…

Saying "I Do" Anew

Last year, my husband and I asked that our marriage be taken under the care of Salmon Bay Meeting in…
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