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Waiting for Light to Come

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

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 (March 2014)

Tax Season

• Authored by:
• Elizabeth Boardman

Dear Friends: April is the season for pondering the U.S. income tax system and the fact that about half our tax dollars are used to support the Department of Defense, even when the US is not engaged in any major conflict in the world. 

On Time (March 2014)

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration? - Review

• Authored by:
• Matt Lowen

Edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright

On Production (May 2014)

On Production

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

After frolicking around The Garden all morning, Adam and Eve were starving. They filled their bellies with the fruit of The Tree, and it gave them such a headache! The knowledge of good and evil throbs in the ever-branching tangle of nerves that is the human brain. And the Tree of Good and Evil produces both kinds of fruit.

On Production (May 2014)

Reluctantly Facing an Inconvenient Truth

• Authored by:
• Barbara Donachy

The award-wining 2012 documentary film, Chasing Ice, paints a beautiful and profoundly disturbing picture of the rapid retreat of glaciers from our planet. This film was made by Jim Balog, who founded the Extreme Ice Survey in 2001 to document the dramatic impact of climate change on the polar regions of our planet.

On Production (May 2014)

Alarmed

• Authored by:
• Kathy Barnhart

In response to Harvard University’s refusal to divest from its fossil fuel stock, a recent mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, commented, “[pullquote]We're the first generation to see the effects of climate change, and the last generation who can do anything about it.[/pullquote] To refuse to use every tool at our disposal in this fight – to embrace inaction – is to endorse a trajectory that will lead to suffering, privation, and calamity. We owe it to those who our institutions and investments serve and will serve in the future to do everything we can to prevent this crisis.” With an unprecedented drought ongoing throughout the West, we might be directly experiencing this crisis already.

On Production (May 2014)

Laugh and Laugh and Laugh

• Authored by:
• Hannah Mackinney

I kneel down in front of Anna and stroke her hand. Then I say to her, “Mi amor. ¿Puedo recibir una sonrisa? ¿Por favor?”

On Pride (July 2014)

Love Lost in Translation: Homosexuality and the Bible - Review

• Authored by:
• D. Pablo Stanfield

Written by Kjell Renato Lings

On Pride (July 2014)

Your Sons and Your Daughters will Prophesy

• Authored by:
• Jonathan Vogel-Borne

Excerpts from a presentation to Pacific Yearly Meeting; July 15, 2014; Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, California

On Family (September 2014)

Another Home

• Authored by:
• Anastacia Easterling

Interview with Anastacia Easterling

On Family (September 2014)