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Arlene Kelly
One of the difficult issues for Quakers is leadership. Somehow we know we need leaders, yet we are all supposed…Friends Don't Let Friends Drive
I applaud Keith Helmuth’s thorough essay, "Ecological Integrity and Religious Faith" (FJ Aug. 2001), and offer this piece to put…Surviving Winter
When I woke up one morning last winter, it was five degrees. The cold was paralyzing. At 6:30 am, an…Jesus as the Second Option
Times change. Perhaps certain aspects of reality don’t change, but times do change. As a poet I’d like to have…Quaker Education: Thoughts on Our Words, Our Silence, and a Very Cool Milk Jug Raft
G. K. Chesterton once said that most educational debates more or less dead-end at "Let us not decide what is…A Sacred Walk: Parenting as a Way to God
Nothing has taught me more about the constancy of God’s presence and continuing creation than being a parent. From the…Courageously Faithful: Bringing Peace to War
This room is a new room to most of us. I want to invite you to simply take some time…Sexual Ethics: What Is Our Goal?
As I understand it, the central Quaker commitment is to listen to the Spirit’s promptings and act faithfully in accordance…Empathy
I sit quietly in meeting for worship, envisioning the Light Within and knowing that I am being held very gently…![](https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vonn-new-cover.jpg)