A Quaker looks at incivility
Timothy L. Phillips, Ryan D. King, Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (2010) 230 pp., $30.00. A review by Larry Spears. … How recently and often has anyone pushed…
Conversation Archives: 2011 > June
Unless We Change
By Rachel Stacy … While my last post reveled some of my inadequacies around safety, security, and fear, when I consulted my notes for what to write about next, I found that the keynote speaker at the opening plenary spoke directly to the issue of fear and how it plays a role in…
Fear Not!
By Rachel Stacy … During our training as stewards we participated in a seminar on safety and security. Kingston, Jamaica, is recognized as one of the most dangerous cities in the world and in such a climate the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (
Welcoming the Stranger
By Rachel Stacy … Way opened so that my role as a steward at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) in Kingston, Jamaica, was to help out at the registration/info table. With two other stewards and two fantastic World Council of Churches…
World Peace and Prayer Days
By Rhoda Gilman … In the last issue of Universalist Friends, published in August, 2010, a “Plea for Universal Interfaith Efforts” appeared. (It can still be read at universalistfriends.org.) The letter was signed by Arvol Looking Horse, a Lakota spiritual…
Letters of Support: Living or Dead?
By Rachel Stacy … While I have several more articles about the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) coming out over the next few weeks, Anthony and I concurred it would be helpful to continue this thread of dialogue as…
Traveling in the ministry
By Anthony Manousos … In a thoughtful response to Rachel Stacy’s post, Steven Davison asks if she has asked her meeting for a letter of support or traveling minute. I am very glad that Steven raised this point since I have found this ancient custom of Friends to be very…