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There are alternatives to giving up meat
I feel the need to speak up in response to Gracia Fay Ellwood’s article "Are Animals Our Neighbors" (FJ April).…
Simplicity: A Testimony?
For some time, I have been puzzled about the Friends Testimony on Simplicity. The use of the word "simplicity" as…
Beginning Where We Are
Years ago my husband, Adam, was the national organizer for the Shakertown Pledge. Drafted during the 1970s by a group…
Meeting God Halfway
One Way to Engage in a Quaker Witness on Economic Justice and Ecological Concern I invite you to consider a…
Simplicity with Children
Did you know that a number of over-the-counter children’s vitamins contain aspartame, an artificial sweetener that has been known to…
Wait on the Lord
A Friend remarked in meeting that he felt uncomfortable with the notion that, in the immortal words of John Milton,…
Some Thoughts on Mystical Experiences
Yesterday I went for a walk by the lake, and I had a mystical experience—that’s what I am calling it…
Living on a Finite Earth
Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. —Letter to President Pierce, attributed…
Living Lightly in New Zealand
We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving…
Lighting the Path of Seven Generations
But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;…
Four Directions from Manhattan
A couple of months ago while crossing 23rd Street on my way to Madison Square Park, I realized that in…
What is the Meaning of a Toad?
What is the meaning of a toad? In elementary school I write a one-page report on toads. I draw a…
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