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November 2017

November 28, 2017

Learning Hate, Poem by William Stafford Teaches How War Starts

I find this poem breathtaking. I hope you do, too. Stafford's simple scene challenges us...

November 21, 2017

Three Great Activities for Black Friday That Don’t Involve Shopping Bags!

For the beginning of the holiday season, most Quakers do just about nothing. The idea...

November 17, 2017

Great Quaker Women: Mary Fisher, Jailed Repeatedly for Preaching

Fisher was jailed often in York for preaching, and in 1653 she and Elizabeth Williams...

November 14, 2017

Without Gun Control, How Do We Protect the Innocent?

What are you thinking, Christians in America, when you say we need unrestricted access to...

November 01, 2017

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SHAME

Women who speak out are brave, not only because they’ve gone against a powerful aggressor...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Great Quaker Women: Lucretia Mott

Because she was a woman, Mott was denied entrance at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in...

October 19, 2017

Great Quaker women: Elise Boulding

Each week for the next month or so, I will write about a great Quaker...

October 17, 2017

Male Space-Female Space-Quaker Space

Although Quakerism does better than many faith practices in terms of gender equity, that bar...

October 10, 2017

No Politics on Our Bumper, Please: a Teenager’s Plea.

As a parent, I want my kids to form their own views and grow into...

September 2017

September 13, 2017

What NOW? Dealing with Extreme Overload

How do you effectively support loved ones in the face of unpredictable oncoming disaster? What...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Quaker Query: How Do We Honor the Opinions of Others?

Good queries guide our searches and direct our thinking; they don't have rote answers. That...

August 29, 2017

Are Pacifists Cowards? Does Nonviolence Mean No One Gets Hurt?

I participated in a meeting of local activists and wrongly assumed they would be pacifists...

August 22, 2017

Query Tuesday: How Does Your Service Reveal Your Faith?

Quakers ask questions, or queries, as a way of directing their thinking on a topic....

August 18, 2017

Is this the last gasp of racism in America?

Probably for the first time, I understand that this struggle, this last gasp will outlast...

August 10, 2017

Have Things Gotten Better? Maybe not. Throwback Thursday

I’ve been reminded of three blogs where I knew what would make things better, what...

August 07, 2017

Fight Fair? Can You Really Do That?

My husband and I have had only one fight in the 40+ years we've known...

August 03, 2017

Reclaiming My Time: Who Hasn’t Wanted To Do That?

You can only imagine how excited I was to see the clip of Senator Maxine...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

A Bear Is My Teacher, I Shall Not Want. Lessons from Wildlife.

From my bedroom window, I saw there in my yard a yearling bear lying spread...

July 07, 2017

Writing a Poem Together from Gaza City to Colorado Springs

Writing a group poem with young people from Gaza was just like writing one with...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

Don’t Disrespect My Mom: A Lesson in Feminism From My Son

I was treated poorly at a car dealership service center, and my son was more...

June 03, 2017

Five (Kind of Surprising) Things to Know About Quakers

Quakers are a varied group with a range of practices. Here are five facts that...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Judging Justice & Mercy In Politics

A new administration is in our government, which means this is a time for us...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

As a Quaker, How Are You Keeping Your Temper?

Over lunch my friend asked me, “How are you doing with all this with Trump?...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Warriors’ Writing Expresses Their Pacificism

A writing workshop for military veterans introduced me to warriors who had become pacifists. I...

March 28, 2017

Least Among us Forgotten in the Health Care Debacle

There was no love in the health care bill introduced by the Speaker of the...

March 17, 2017

Homeless Youth Offer Grace and Forgiveness

“I don’t want to think about that stuff and I’m not going to write about...

March 14, 2017

Parenting a Nonviolent Boy in a Violent World

Kids with Quaker parents suffer all sorts of small embarrassments. Their parents wear political tee...

March 09, 2017

Who Holds Our Moral Compass? Who Carries Moral Authority?

For some time, I was willing to consider some of these people as one Voice...

March 04, 2017

Teach Children to Question Authority: They Will Like You As Adults

That someone’s mother would forbid their daughter to read book seemed unbelievable to my son....

February 2017

February 24, 2017

John Stafford’s Poem Called “Poetry” Makes Us See

John Stafford was a poet, a Quaker, a pacifist and much more. Every War Has...

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