Creativity, travel, the interests of the mind and the world at large, and the “fluid expression of personality” are positive aspects of aging today. By Elsie Marion Andrews Pendle Hill Pamphlet #157
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.