Scott Martin is a member of Centre Friends Meeting in Centreville, DE, a small, rural meeting established in the late 1600’s, where he recently served as clerk. In retirement, he teaches fall prevention to older adults and writes the blog The Jungian…
Mohsid Hamid’s Exit West is a novel exploring the experience of refugees in this world, with a little magic in the mechanism of magic doors that permit refugees to engage with the real experiences of refugees in other countries and situations. The theme is…
Kristin Loken attends Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting in West Virginia. From her little cottage beside the Potomac River in West Virginia, Kristin writes and works locally on problems she sees as critical to a just and sustainable world. … A few years ago, someone asked…
How does a Quaker meeting or church prepare for its ministry to immigrants in the U.S. in 2017? Here is a beginning for discernment in one meeting. It is a matter of discernment. See how the Duluth-Superior Friends Meeting in Minnesota is approaching discernment and including…
The world is once again being fragmented by fearful, angry politics and warfare, and religion is often in the mix in dangerous and destructive ways. Even so, we are seeing a resurgence of people reaching out with hands and hearts across the supposed boundaries of their…
Rick Brown, AICP, CBSP, has been an urban planner for nearly 30 years, primarily serving communities in the State of Michigan. He was convinced in early 2016, and he is very proud to be a liberal Quaker who strongly…
