Foundations for Choices
I help people get abortions.
For me, this is not controversial work. Or tortured work. Or even particularly charitable work. It is spiritual work.
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I help people get abortions.
For me, this is not controversial work. Or tortured work. Or even particularly charitable work. It is spiritual work.
[The following text was excerpted from the keynote presentation to Lake Erie Yearly Meeting on July 30, 2021. The unabridged text is published online at: https://westernfriend.org/media/healing-native-peoples-thru-truth.]
[The following text was excerpted from: https://westernfriend.org/media/freedom-fraternity-friends.]
Let us love, not in word or speech,
but in truth and action.
(John 3:18)
I admit it, I’m a word nerd. I grew up with Scrabble and Boggle, then progressed to New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles. At one point, I even wrote my own twelve-page dictionary of invented, adapted, and deliberately mangled words and meanings.
Upon my arrival in Richmond, Indiana – after years of ministry in San Francisco, California – I would often walk the campus in the awareness that Earlham College had been standing at the time of the Civil War. I think often about the tension between spectacular, Ezekiel-like revelations from God and what happens when we attempt to translate such revelations into structured communities.
“Before going into unfamiliar arid country,” the late Jim Corbett wrote, “study maps that show the location of water.”
by Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge and Jed Walsh
This is a time when many Quaker meetings have approved statements denouncing racist violence and pledging their efforts to uproot and dismantle systemic racism.
