Biblical studies are becoming global occupations. They are coalescing into a singular, increasingly coordinated, universal occupation. The parochial, particular, and narrow study of the Biblical studies is becoming things of the past. Much of this movement is due to the adven…
[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…
Friend Larry Spears’ “Universal Mechanism for Ministry to Seniors” proposal is one I know he has worked out through personal experience. He does us the great service of lifting a conceptual map out of the sometimes messy and painful intimacy of caregiving…
The Description, Checklist and Comments portions of this blog post are all available as a downloadable PDF file: Ministry-to-seniors.pdf. Is there a model1 for ministry to seniors that is universal and can be applied in all countries and cultures? The demographic…
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…
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that…
Moral injury is an emerging concept whose deep spiritual reality should be obvious to Quakers. A deep sense of transgression including feelings of shame, grief, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs. Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini…
Shantideva says a lot about our mindset. The mindset of friend and foe. Like and dislike. For me and against me. And how that very mechanism of buying so tightly into this notion of the good people and the bad people—the ones that I like and the ones I don’t…
