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My Spiritual Life, with Food

By Barbara Birch on June 13, 2012

I am a weighty Friend in the literal sense of ā€œweighing a lotā€ but definitely not in the metaphorical sense [ā€¦]

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Stirring Dull Roots

By Newton Garver on April 1, 2004

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with [ā€¦]

Newton Garver, a member of Buffalo (N.Y.) Meeting, is emeritus professor of Philosophy at SUNY/Buffalo. He is actively engaged in enhancing relations with Bolivian Quakers through the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund.

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God Is in the Mouth of the Wolf

By Charles David Kleymeyer on April 1, 2004

I think I must have been born searching for God. People tell me that just as my head crowned during [ā€¦]

Charles David Kleymeyer joined Madison (Wis.) Meeting in 1970 and has attended Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and Langley Hill (Va.) Meeting. An author, performing storyteller, and international grassroots-development sociologist, he fashioned this story from his novel-length manuscript about a boy who grows up next door to Jesus.

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Retreating with Thich Nhat Hanh

By Phyllis Hoge on April 1, 2004

Early in the summer of 2003 my Friend Tina learned that Thich Nhat Hanh was going to lead a oneā€day [ā€¦]

Phyllis Hoge is a member of Albuquerque (N. Mex.) Meeting. She has published some books of poetry, most recently Letters from Jian Hui, and last year published her first prose book, The Painted Clock: Memoirs of a New Mexican Ghost Town Bride.

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Let Suffering Stop Here

By Susan Corson-Finnerty on June 1, 2002

Iā€™ve recently read an article in the New York Times detailing the Bush administrationā€™s plans to launch an attack on [ā€¦]

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