I had a dream a few days ago, one of those rare wholly unambiguous dreams. It was a flying dream, but that’s not the relevant feature, just a plot device. I was returning home to an upper floor of a six-story apartment building. Flying over the roof, I saw that the…
[If] it wasn’t for the Quaker Brother Bayard Rustin, the 1963 March on Washington wouldn’t have ever gotten out of the gate…. Rustin said, “My activism did not spring from being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the…
In “End Slavery for All,” the Viewpoint section for the September 2016 issue of Friends Journal, John Andrew Gallery of Philadelphia, PA, explains why we should amend the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The following are…
In July 2016, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) joined in coalition with twenty-plus other groups to organize the People’s Justice and Peace Convention 2016 (PJPC) in Cleveland, a non-partisan, campaign-free…
I think we tend to miss the point of the teaching story misnamed “The Good Samaritan” (Luke 10:25-37). Almost always our focus is on the people who passed by the “man who fell among thieves” and on the one who stopped, instead of on the…
Friends, I’m sorry for the lack of posts over the past few weeks. I do not know how to respond with words to the cascading violence. Blessings, Mike Shell
Friend Gerry Yokota an American living in Japan, a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting. Born (Ohio) and raised (Kentucky) Southern Baptist, began attending Friends Meeting in Princeton, NJ, in the early nineties and then became a member of
Craig Barnett is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. The following are excerpts from the 6/2/16 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . We encourage you to read the complete blog post. As…
Keep the Quaker Universalist Message Flourishing … In 1984, when visionary Quakers founded the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, they set up a foundation to ensure that a universalist voice in Quakerism would be available to the world. A legacy for QUF will provide a…
Eugene Ackerman, PhD, Emeritus Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota died on September 25, 2014. Active in the Religious Society of Friends, Gene was member of the Prospect Hill Friends Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, a supporter of Quaker…