Self-Realization

A Practice of Such Gentle Collective Ecstasy

I have come early to Friends meeting this morning. I sit alone in a room that is sparse and welcoming,…

Twenty-One Tips on Personal Peacemaking

I think we as Quakers spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing peacemaking, but when it comes to…

Mushrooms and Poems

I don’t know if it was because the season had been unusually wet, or if it was just the time…

Unobstructed Love

The problem with unobstructed love is that it’s rarely understood. Maybe that’s because it does not appear like any other…

The Power of Fearful Faithfulness: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy For Friends

In March, I received an invitation to this summer’s Friends General Conference Gathering in Johnstown, Pa. Pulling the flyer from…

Jesus: What Does He Matter?

Jesus’ name is not commonly spoken among unprogrammed, liberal Friends (at least not those I am familiar with), and it…

Clearness Committees at the Crossroads of Our Working Lives

The fork in the road—it’s an experience that affects many of us at one time or another in the course…

The Mystery of Being a Neighbor

Toward the end of my Gathering workshop I wrote, "Fear that this experience will have no significant impact on my…

Living Truth at The Woolman Semester

In late 2003 I was at a peak of emotional and spiritual turmoil. I was teaching middle and high school…

A Christian Vision of the Earth

We are by nature Earth creatures, lifted from the mud of the ground and stirred to life by the breath…

Journeying in Darkness

When I was in the second grade I received a Bible, a gift from my Sunday school. In the New…

Remembering Patricia

I met her at work, answered when she called our hotline and, later that day, welcomed her at our shelter…
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