Spiritual Growth

The Need for Radical Acceptance

I’m a 26-year-old African American Quaker. There are parts of my life that seem typical to the lives of young…

Living Our Convictions

Faithfulness The first call is to God, to faithfulness. Out of faithfulness rises the call to live in peace. In…

''Walking Cheerfully … with a Vision in Our Pockets

Is it just me, or are others running into more cynical, escapist, or despairing people these days? My Christian conservative…

The Deepest Encounter

Jungian analyst and author Donald Kalsched was winding up his presentation on Grimm’s fairy tale, "The Water of Life." He…

The poetry of God

I greatly appreciated the wide variety of perspectives in your March issue on the nature of the Divine. As a…

Our Money and Our Lives

Money is a hard thing for Quakers to talk about. That’s my experience, at least—whether it be in conversations with…

Reconsidering Financial Security

Friends speak of living in faithfulness to God, of letting our outward lives be wholly patterned by obedience to the…

Living with Beggars

The man walking toward me grinned broadly from several feet away, and at first I thought he was being friendly.…

What is Truth?

An early Christian bishop and martyr was offered the choice of escaping a fairly horrific death if he would deny…

Wait and Watch: Meeting for Worship as Spiritual Practice

When I first began attending meeting for worship I did not know what to expect. I knew that Quaker meetings…

Zen and the Quakers: A Meditation

At Friendship Meeting in Greensboro, N.C., a few years ago, our Friend DeWitt Barnett told of the time he was…

The Three Gems

A famous Buddhist prayer is known as the Three Gems: I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in…
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