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In preparation for a program on meeting for worship and vocal ministry, I have been rereading some contemporary sources. Here is quote from Rachel Muers’ Keeping God’s Silence.   The most important risk taken in listening, however, is not the risk of being “defeated” by some more powerful speaker, but the risk shared with the […]

Words Matter by Wayne Finegar, Executive Director The continued war on anyone and anything that doesn’t match Pete Hegseth’s vision of a “warrior” has had multiple victims lately. Along with women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color, words have come under attack. In one of the weirdest moves yet, there was a mass search and

“For conscience’s sake to God, we are bound by his just law in our hearts to yield obedience to [authority] in all matters and cases actively or passively; that is to say, in all just and good commands of the king and the good laws of the land relating to our outward man, we must

From the Daily Quaker Message website – “…We are not for Names, nor Men, nor Titles of Government, nor are we for this Party, nor against the other, because of its Name and Pretense; but we are for Justice and Mercy, and Truth and Peace, and true Freedom, that these may be exalted in our

Article in the New Republic on the founder of Extinction Rebellion who sees a move to Sortition, selecting our representatives randomly from the general population, as the best way that we can design our future together and avoid climate catastrophe. Here is the link to full article – The centerpiece of Hallam’s plan is a

In this fiercely intelligent and wildly conceivable vision of the apocalypse, things we now take for granted are in short supply: Toilet paper is doled out one square at a time. Violent storms rack the sky, interrupted by fires broad as the horizon (shades of today’s tornadoes and fires!). Radioactivity everywhere is a given. Unfortunately, the

York Meeting is starting a book discussion of John Paul Lederach’s newly published The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War: Surprising ideas from everyday people who shifted the cycles of violence. See https://www.johnpaullederach.com/2024/07/pocket-guide/ for a discussion guide and to read the book online.

“Our Lord shewed his Disciples, that the Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, should not only bring to their Remembrance what he had told them, shew them Things to come, and lead them into all Truth; but it should likewise, reprove the World of Sin, of Righteousness, and of Judgment (John xv. and xvi.). Whether this Divine Visitor appears