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A Call to Radical Vulnerability and Love (abridged), One

Authored by: Elena Anderson-Williams

As a child of this meeting, I grew up with a myth about the faithful life. It wasn’t a myth in the sense of a falsehood, but it was a story I told myself about the noble call and the noble answer. And I desperately wanted this story for myself. And part of what I wanted was certainty.

On Children (September 2018)

Olive Rush and Her Legacy

Authored by: Bettina Raphael

In 1966, the small Quaker meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was bequeathed its current home, the historic house and garden of the painter Olive Rush. It is already an unlikely occurrence for a Quaker meeting to have a patron, and even more so, for the benefactor to be an artist, given Friends’ long history of disparaging the arts as frivolous and vain. Thus, Santa Fe Meeting’s relationship with our “patron” is unique and has been a source of pride, as well as of controversy.

On Art (March 2020)

Transcendence and Community

Authored by: Susan Calhoun

At the close of our business meeting last August, I felt a lack of Light in the room.

On Division (January 2024)

Braiding Sweetgrass Invites You

Spiritual Journeying

Margaret (Peg) McBane

Gil Campos

Hedwig Helene Mueller Fritzsche

Annelise Pysanky

Margaret (Maggie) Ely