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When My Meeting Had My Back
Bitter laughter isn’t my usual response when I look into my new issue of Friends Journal, but a few years…
Divine Love in Action
I first met Michael Baldwin and Uriel Orellano when they attended a Couple Enrichment workshop led by my husband and…
Why the World Needs Quaker Meeting
Sometimes we hated it. Passing through the large white doors of the Assembly Hall, our restive, unruly class somehow transforms…
Happy Birthday, Mercer Street Friends
Mercer Street Friends (MSF) in Trenton, New Jersey, turned 50 in 2008, a milestone that for people typically marks a…
I Am Who I Am
[Moses] came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame…
Advice for Clerks
Here are my thoughts for a new clerk. You’ll have your own way of doing things, and they’ll be wonderful…
A Model for Growth and Rejuvenation of Monthly Meetings
Growing up in Moorestown (N.J.) Meeting, I remember being in awe of a meetinghouse that was, at least to a…
Engaging with a Monthly Meeting about Ministry
What does it mean to be called to public ministry within the Religious Society of Friends? What does it mean…
Conflict in the Life of Our Meeting: Friends Peace Testimony at Work?
Years ago a Friend told the story of an order of Catholic nuns who lived by the discipline that if…
Building Peace at Crossroads Springs
Rhubarb, garlic, and parsnips for peace! What do these have to do with the Friends Peace Testimony? At Orchard Park…
The Gift of the House of the Peaceable Kin-dom
In my youth I was a comic book geek. Occasionally one might hear me cheekily go off about their ability…
A Dog's Buddha Nature
In the fall of 1968 I had moved away from a disbanding communal living situation on New York’s Long Island,…
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