Our washing machine gave up the ghost last Monday. Joan asked me to look at it, so I did and deduced that paying to fix all the things wrong with […]
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Quaker Qualities (Not Simplicity, but Generosity)
When I was 32 years old, I received a phone call from the Friends World Committee for Consultation, asking if I would serve on their Executive Committee. This was a […]
Quaker Qualities (Consistent Compassion)
This past week, I was at the bank and noticed the young woman working as a teller had her preferred pronouns, “she/her,” written on her name tag, just after her […]
How to Die Before You’re Dead (7)
VIEW VIDEO I’ve been thinking this week about family traditions, which we used to have in my family until my granddaughter was born and tradition went out the window. When […]
Finding Our Way (5)
I was looking at a replica of one of the earliest maps of North America not long ago and on that map, California appeared as an island. The first mention […]
Finding our Way (2)
VIEW VIDEO I was chatting with a fellow pastor this week who recently experienced a great tragedy in his work as a minister. He had phoned wanting to talk and […]
Every Child in Every Picture
After my parents passed away, my brother David gathered all the family pictures together, divvied them up into five separate piles, based on the sibling featured in the photograph. My […]