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Quakers, Immigration and sanctuary status

Here’s a link to sites related to BYM’s lawsuit to prevent ICE from entering houses of worship...

Spiritual value of listening

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...

Quaker House – the meaning of words

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...

Early Quaker writing on civil disobedience

“For conscience’s sake to God, we are bound by his just law in our hearts to yield obedience to in all matters and cases actively or passively; that is to say, in all just and good commands of the...

Some Quaker wisdom for the times we live in

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...

Sortition in the New Republic

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...

Kent Barrett’s new play at Dickinson College

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...