This essay, written in 1987, explores the spiritual basis of Friends’ testimony of simplicity: how it evolved from the efforts of early Friends to live in a way that fostered the spiritual richness of their lives, and ...
The author defines three activities of evolution: differentiation, interiority, and communion and then counsels each person to seek a contemplative life to nurture these activities.
After examining the history of Friends’ corporate witness on use of alcoholic beverages, which for the most part produced a call for total abstinence, the author argues that Friends should reexamine and reclaim this testimony.
Can we forge a new link between the insights of science and the deeper prompting of the human spirit through a rebirth of a love for matter? A meditation on our manifold relations with nature. By Theodor Benfey Pendle Hill Pamphlet #233
As a young man at West Point, Mike Heller found himself in a hostile environment, struggling to fit in where he was learning that he did not belong, searching for something to hold onto that was true and that nurtured his spirit.
What does it really mean to absorb the learning that comes from our “roots” in Quakerism? Are there ways of approaching our roots that have a greater likelihood of bearing spiritual fruits?