Dear Friends: We exist as finite creatures embraced by Something Infinite. Spiritual teachers throughout the ages have shown how love and joy can shine from these electrified lumps of clay that are our bodies – how love and joy can shine from this substance of darkness and pain. That is the mystery of incarnation.
As an economist, I study and teach about money, markets, and the economy. Given that I have been on this professional journey for nearly half a century, something makes me feel that I should have it all pretty much figured out by now. But I don’t. In some ways, I know less now than I once did. Perhaps this is good.
Intermountain Yearly Meeting, June 7 - 14, 2015; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM
(Full text at: westernfriend.org/sites/default/files/documents/IMYM-Call-2015.pdf)
The Price of Folly: A Lay-Person’s Guide to American Plutocracy
by William Durland, JD., PhD.
Reviewed by Henriette Groot, PhD
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My experience as a Navy pilot for a third of my life is fundamental to who I am. The military has significantly impacted my experience as a Quaker. This is most evident to me when I compare the Quaker testimonies of Simplicity, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Peace with the military codes and traditions that have shaped me.
