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Filling a Toolkit
Arriving Earlham School of Religion (ESR) and I were both born in the autumn of 1960. We intersected in our…
DellaStanley-Green
Learning about the Real World of Ministry
Any change in one’s life has the potential to be transformative. Going to Earlham School of Religion was certainly so…
RexJones
“Teachable Moments” at ESR
I look back with gratitude on how ESR prepared me for pastoral ministry among Friends, especially in the area of…
ScottWagoner
Living in the Life and Power
I have always been drawn by the words of George Fox, recorded in his Journal, refusing the commissioners’ request of…
PattyLevering
A Brief Dance with Death
In October 2008 I had my first mammogram. The next day, I received a call. "There is an asymmetry on…
HollyJeffries
One German’s Response to What My Nation Did in World War II
Two weeks after I first moved from Germany to Los Angeles in 2002 to study theology, a fellow seminarian asked…
Jochen Strack
The Real Peace Movement
I enjoyed reading a Reflections called "Living Outside the Box" by Fran Palmeri of Sarasota (Fla.) Meeting (FJ Sept. 2007).…
CatherinePrice
Left in Darkness
There was something about the way the new green had sprouted precisely in the middle of my garden. The garden…
HollyCedar
The Trail We Leave Behind Us
Learning from My Neighbors It’s a great honor to be together to listen and speak and have a conversation. I…
ShaneClaiborne
Why I Am Not a Christian
I have attended Quaker meeting for over 40 years, and am a member of Rochester (N.Y.) Meeting, yet I do…
SanfordLSegal
As Some Lights Dim, Others Brighten
I’m three score and ten, and hope that fact, plus a half century of seeking, equips me for answering the…
JimAtwell
Wrestling with God
Jakob Freud was a devout Hassidic Jew, who participated in an education program led by Ludwig and Pheobus Phillipson. The…
TimothyLeonard
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