Is Unity Possible?

Greetings, Friends, and happy World Quaker Day! Today in meetinghouses around the world, Friends are reflecting on and feeling grateful to be part of an international community, a worldwide family of Friends. In our own unique cultures and in our own authentic ways, we are each drawn together from our individual lives to seek and […]

Quaker Herstory

There are so many things to love about our Friends tradition. First, there’s our soul-level commitment to truth, inwardly and outwardly. And the deep way we value simplicity. Not to mention the way we keep working at accepting one another unconditionally, looking for “that of God” in everyone we meet. In this tradition we have […]

Seeing in the Dark

There’s an awful lot going on in our world right now, and unfortunately, that’s nothing new. It seems like for years, we’ve been dealing with one crisis after another—and sometimes multiple crises, layered one on top of another. Unrest in our world and unrest in our hearts can make it hard for us to find […]

Limitless Good

How hard would it be for you to believe–with our world just the way it is right now, with things as unsettled as they seem, our bodies exactly as they are, the future quite possibly a murky mess—how hard would it be for you to believe that we are all floating in an endless ocean […]

Beautiful World

As our message for the second Sunday in our Summer of Gratitude, the idea came to me that we should begin with our biggest, closest, and most often overlooked kin: the natural world around us. We are so intimately connected to the earth that it is literally impossible for us to separate ourselves from it. […]

God-with-Us: Stories of Faith

It’s so good to have you all with us on World Quaker Day! All over the world just now, on different continents and in different time zones, Quakers are gathering together and celebrating and sharing the essence of the growing faith that animates and unfolds our lives. If you are new to Quakerism, you might […]

Joyful Murmurations

Last Monday on my way to the hospital, against the soft blue and gold of the morning sky, I saw two different murmurations. Seemed like a miracle—or a message. So beautiful! And mysterious. In case you don’t remember what a murmuration is, it is a big, flowing flock of birds—starlings, scientists say, in groups sometimes […]

A Force for Good

Do you remember that hopeful quote from George Fox where he says he saw an ocean of darkness that was swept over by an infinite ocean of light? We’re just about ready for that big wave of goodness to sweep over our world, aren’t we? This week has been harrowing, with the unprovoked attack by […]

Kodachrome

Are you curious about the title of today’s message? I was too, when I started writing it. But I can tell you, now that it is done, it is a message about memory, about finding truth, and about how spirit turns everything to good, even our flaws and mistakes and blind spots. When we learn […]

In Reach of Wisdom

For the past two weeks I’ve been reading a book about mindfulness called, Relax and Be Aware. The ideas it contains are at the same time, simple and clear as well as profoundly deep and challenging. The author teaches meditation at a center in Myanmar (me-yan-mar) and in his book, he invites readers to become […]

The Space between the Words

There's always room for more.

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