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November 2017

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 09, 2017

Great Quaker Women: Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Prisoner Reformer

By the 1820's, she was well enough know to be attacked in the press for...

October 2017

October 05, 2017

Query: How Do You Accept Someone Who REALLY Irritates You?

Learning to accept even the person who really bugs you is enough to test even...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

Query: How Do You Shift Your Perspective toward Gratitude?

Turning yourself into a positive person doesn't happen easily. Here are some queries from Eileen...

September 20, 2017

Query: Is It Possible to Hear Divine Guidance? Are You Listening?

Can anyone really receive Divine Guidance? What does it sound like? Quakers use a query...

August 2017

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...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

What? No Gurus? Quakers Have a PR Problem

A Friend overheard my ponderings and succinctly explained the problem with attracting people to Quakerism....

May 2017

May 29, 2017

What if the World is Abundant?

I had the God-given freedom to ignore all boxes when thinking about this problem. I...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

You’ll Never Guess Who Called Today: The NRA

When the NRA called, I listened. They didn't want to talk to me, though! And...

March 2017

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 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...

December 2016

December 13, 2016

Query Tuesday: Equality

From Faith and Practice for the Intermountain Yearly Meeting, this three-in-one query asks that each...

December 09, 2016

A Quaker Christmas

And then came Christmas. That is when I learned that previous Quakers had not celebrated...

December 06, 2016

Query Tuesday: Integrity

Integrity, as these queries come at it, requires that we go deeply into our natures...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Query Tuesday: Human Brotherhood

Do you live in the life and power which takes away the occasion of all...

November 22, 2016

Query Tuesday: About Conflict

This week's query gets to the matter of handling conflicts in our communities. Might be...

November 15, 2016

Query Tuesday

If Quakers have a point of dogma, it is that there is that of God...

November 07, 2016

The Presidential Candidate You’ve Never Heard Of

Brad Lyttle has run for president four times on the platform that we must deactivate...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

The Sins of My Ancestors: Slavery

My ancestors were slave holders in northern Maryland at Hance Point where the North East River joins...

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