Wrestling with Despair
Description:
Notes taken during a silent retreat, during which the author confronted a Faith and Practice, a steep and slippery trail, and a squirrel.
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Notes taken during a silent retreat, during which the author confronted a Faith and Practice, a steep and slippery trail, and a squirrel.
An update of an old favorite, including blue jeans, pagans, and Internet trolls.
Links to a work-in-progress documentary feature film, starring the Cachela Poudre River, which is at the center of the western water wars.
Reports by Arthur Kegerreis, Pedro Rios, and Holly Anderson about Friends’ activities at the border between San Diego and Tiajuana.
Public statement by Emily Welty, on behalf of the World Council of Churches, calling on Treaty Parties to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Text of David Johnson’s 2005 James Backhouse Lecture to Australia Yearly Meeting.
Blog of a Black-Indian Quaker, who shares insights from her life among “colorblind racist” white progressives.
An invitation to all humans to turn our lives into curricula of peace.
A study of the history and modern practices of Quaker traveling ministers by a Friend who is one.
An exploration of the dangers of “somatophobia” – the fear of bodily contact with others.
