Mary Klein
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Articles
On Healers
On Dignity
On Loss
On Perception
On Conflict
On Science
On Cooperation
On Normality
On Place
On Alternatives
On Freedom
Discussion Guide for Articles in "On Freedom"
On Words
On Cliques
On Debt
On Tricks
Correction of a Quaker Baby
On Relevance
On Vision
On Rules
On Teachers
Corrections
On Secrets
On Wealth
On Art
On Mediation
On Separation
On Neighbors
On Control
On Puzzles
On Water
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Weapons"
On Weapons
On Mixture
Offensive
On Children
On Bosses
On Expansion
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Expansion"
On Music
On Captivity
“Amost Right” is Not “Right”
On Garbage
On Home
On Politics
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Balance"
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Insight"
On Insight
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Competition"
On Competition
Carbon Offsets for Western Friend
Many new initiatives to promote "carbon offsets" have emerged since the letter below was published.
Discussion Guide for articles in "On Flesh"
On Media
On Heritage
On Limits
On Beginning
On Countries
Puzzles and a Game (Nov/Dec 2015)
A Good Chocolate Business
A story about the Cadbury family in the 1800s.
On Money
On Play
Love in the Desert
A story about Jim Corbett and friends.
Same and Different
On Difference
John Woolman, Pure and Simple
On Needs
On Knowing
The Phoenix of Hiroshima
Find a lesson plan here for using this article in First Day School.
Puzzles and a Game (Jan/Feb 2015)
On Reconciliation
Puzzles and a Game (Nov/Dec 2014)
Too Full of Himself
On Temptation
The Wedding of Seaweed and Fungus
Puzzles and a Game (Sept/Oct 2014)
Family Celebration
On Family
A Game, Drawing, and Two Puzzles (On Pride)
Six Bold Colors
On Pride
Puzzles and a Game (May/June 2014)
On Production
Summer Camps that Made a Difference
It was summer camp, but it sounded serious. Quaker Work Camp was a whole month of work and study. The camp sounded serious, but the campers made it fun.
Waiting for Light to Come
It’s no fun to feel sick – no fun to have an upset stomach or a stuffy nose. And getting hurt is no fun either. Burning your finger, banging your head, scraping your knee – not fun. You just want someone to take the bad feeling away. And nobody can do that. But if they see that you need help, they can try to help you.
On Time
Puzzles and a Game (March/April 2014)
On Patriotism
Hidden Picture
Puzzles and a Game (Jan/Feb 2014)
Cruelty and Kindness in Wartime
Josephine Duveneck loved adventure. She loved justice, too. In 1936, just a few years before the start of World War Two, Josephine took a trip to Germany with her family. They rented bikes and rode through the German countryside. The travelers were Josephine, her husband Frank, and three of their four children.
On Deception
On Love
Western Friend Forward
On Superiority
On Consumption
On Power
On Seeds
The only promise Life makes is this: Things will change. And when they do, we can try something new. We will still be we. But we will be different.
On Division
So much havoc and pain have been wreaked on the world by people who were certain they were performing God’s will.
On Prayer
The Religious Society of Friends is a religion, not a political project.
On Balance
In the “capstone talk” of the American Friends Service Committee’s Centennial Summit last month, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias framed his remarks with reference to an episode described by Henry Cadbury in his Nobel Lecture of 1947. In that lecture, Cadbury recounts, “In 1665, some English Quaker carpenters were building wooden ships on the Thames. They thought they were pacifists and had renounced war, and when there was danger of invasion by a Dutch fleet, these carpenters were required to carry arms. Naturally, they refused to do so, but it never occurred to them that what they were building were warships. It comes slowly, this discovery.”
On Innocence
At its core, every creature is beholden to all of creation. Every creature is also built to protect its own integrity.
On Tech
As we all know, our big ideas quickly got away from us.
On Legacy
As millions of victims would attest, religious communities routinely fail to demonstrate mercy or kindness.
On Compassion
Recently, I was pleased to learn the expression “aspirational recycling.”
Archive Articles
- Friends Bulletin - April 2008 - Seeking Unity: Discernment and Decision-Making in our Quaker Community