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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 Insight
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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 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.”
From the Editor
To have the ability to read and the gift of writing is to be tasked with a responsibility: to share your inner world with others in the written form.