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Threshold Choirs
Five years ago, after attending a workshop by Richard Lee on Meetings for Healing, I started a Meeting for Healing…
Questions for Quakers about Cars
On a cold, rainy day in Maine around Thanksgiving 2005, I got rid of my car. Bright yellow maple leaves…
Meeting for Soup
I rarely help out with First-day school, but they needed a substitute one Sunday, so I volunteered. In the days…
Love and Accountability
I started thinking about issues of responsibility for people with progressive, long-term disabilities because of my friend Teddie. (For Teddie…
Spiritual Direction as a Resource for Friends
Friends come to their meetings out of some kind of spiritual hunger—a desire for belonging and encouragement in making the…
Challenging Certainty
I believe that Friends are called to reflect anew on our relationship with animals. This concern dates back at least…
Living Our Convictions
Faithfulness The first call is to God, to faithfulness. Out of faithfulness rises the call to live in peace. In…
Louisiana Journal
Shortly after Hurricane Rita, Virginia Ratliff, a native of Louisiana, felt called to return to the rural Gulf Coast and…
Friends Neighborhood Guild: A Quaker Presence in Philadelphia
The Beginnings In 1879, as an expression of concern for their new immigrant neighbors, Friends in the Northern Liberties section…
Middle School Friends Workcamp
Last September, my 13-year-old daughter and I participated in the Middle School Friends Workcamp, run by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and…
Parent Involvement
As the cofounder of a parent-cooperative, early childhood education, community-based program that grew to become a school, I offer some…
Wait on the Lord
A Friend remarked in meeting that he felt uncomfortable with the notion that, in the immortal words of John Milton,…
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