Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate?

Speech given at the Annual Meeting of FWCC, Section of the Americas, Philadelphia, 2002. As the USA entered a new period of warmaking, a Friend from Baltimore YM offered a vision of how we could work for peace, with quotes from the Bible and Quaker history.

Leading and Being Led

The first third of a Pendle Hill pamphlet with the same name. An exploration of how we can know when the Holy Spirit is leading us to do something. Contains examples from Quaker history.

No Doubt

A Friend from Philadelphia YM whose daughter is disabled offers thoughts on seeing her daughter as a gift from God.

Connected to the Vine

Talk given at World Gathering of Young Friends in Britain in 2005; African-American Friend describes her spiritual journey through several different types of Christianity to end up as a Friend in Philadelphia YM.

Learning to Go in Peace

Keynote talk at sessions of Philadelphia YM in 2008, by pastor from Northwest YM, exploring the peace testimony and its Biblical basis and how we can live it in the 21st century.

Practicing the Gospel of Hope in the Nuclear Age

A Friend from New York YM sees the film “Gandhi” and makes observations about efforts to transform the world using violent and nonviolent means; he includes examples from the Bible, Quaker history, and other sources.

On Listening: To God and to Each Other

Talk given by Friend from Philadelphia YM at a spiritual retreat in 1983. Thoughts on listening to the voice of God in our hearts and in those around us.

To Make Us Whole and Free: A Memorial Tribute

Four excerpts from the writings of a British Friend who moved to India and worked with the Gandhian movement. The titles are “Discipline,” “Sharing Our Faith,” “Growing Into Saints,” and “Judgment–A Quaker View.”