“In a world of uncertainty, we seek healing and renewal through faith, community, and spiritual practices. This reflection explores the teachings of diverse traditions like Quakerism, Buddhism, and Daoism to guide us through life’s seasons of struggle, growth, and grace.”
Nathan Shroyer
Summer Camp is Really Year-Round: A Season of Camps
An Enduring Legacy of Friends’ Summer Camps: Sustaining Land, Culture, and Youth Quaker summer camps have long been vital spaces for youth development, spiritual growth, and deep engagement with the testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. While their focus may be on the vibrant months of summer, the work of sustaining these […]
🐝 Protopia in Action: Honoring the Geoengineers of Creation 🌍
[This image is from the movie “The Beekeeper” It is violent. Certainly not peaceful. However, there is a wonderful theme around rehumanizing our planet by recognizing how to end harms of Gluttony, Greed, Avarice, Sloth, and Capitalism. Not antiviolent – but it was prescient about Oligarchs.] Barnegat Friends Meeting, celebrated the quiet, tireless work of […]
“Paradise Lost,” John Milton As quoted in Primitive Christianity
“All deprav’d, Justice and temp’rance, truth and faith forgot, One man except, the only son of light In a dark age, against example, good; Against allurement custom, and the world Offended; fearless of reproach and scorn. Or violence, be of their wicked ways Shall them admonish, and before them set The paths of righteousness, how […]
What are the Testimonies that are rising in thee? Quaker testimonies and restorative justice call us into constantly reemerging fountains of interresponsibility Friends How are we finding our measure of Truth?
Looking for stories of Quaker perspectives on justice. Which of these phrases, queries, and ideas speak to thee and how thee interbe? On Peace: How can we know Peace? How to know responsibility to those adversely impacted by war, racism, and capitalism in America? Addressing structural racism: How do I carry race?How can we better […]
Fierce Loving
Words and practices of opening to transformative humanistic change in government deserve our review and sharing as we seek to eliminate hate that leads to war and violence. “In every way and in every place, we must work to eliminate the scourge of hate that leads to violence and promote the bonds of love that […]
SJQ on your Winter Appeal
On SJQ Winter Appeal Letters and Holy Days of Grace Dear Friends, Quakers practice, nestle into contemplation, and experience grace in all seasons. Every day is a Gift that brings Favor. As winter descends and a world quiets under its embrace, we are called to reflect in gratitude and action. This season of giving offers […]
Carlisle Indian Industrial: A School with Quaker Roots
Quakers have long held significant and complex roles in the history of U.S. relation to First Peoples on Turtle Island. Indigenous peoples, from colonial treaty negotiations to 20th-century federal policies have sought to mediate conflicts and promote what they viewed as peaceful resolutions in company or association with F/friends. This was not always peaceful. While […]
Echoes of Simplicity: Feminism and Equality
Echoes of Simplicity: Feminism and Equality: Margaret Fell to Modernity In the beginning, simplicity was a blade, cutting through the falsehoods of a world drenched in stenches of power. It was a time of George Fox, the prophet of the Inner Light, who roamed by sea and land, calling out to the souls of people. […]
To be able to give thanks to God is to be able to have love of the world.
Thanking would lose meaning if we thanked for everything.Thanking another person involves a value judgement: there mustbe something worthy of thanks…. When the believer thanksGod for his creation, it seems to be a thanksgiving for his life asa whole, for everything, including the good and evil withinhis life, since despite such evil, thanking God is […]
