William Penn

By Janey Levy

Plow up the fallow ground

By Lu Harper

Early Friends had a way of bringing scripture to life, a way of entering into the language and stories of the Bible to find meaningful expressions of their own experience and to find fresh truth in...

From West Point to Quakerism

By Michael Alan Heller

As a young man at West Point, Mike Heller found himself in a hostile environment, struggling to fit in where he was learning that he did not belong, searching for something to hold onto that was tr...

Seekers and finders

By Hugh Mellor

The mindful Quaker

By Valerie Brown

In recent decades, many Quakers have been drawn to the study of Buddhist teachings and to the practices of meditation and mindfulness as taught in Buddhism. Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and...

Margaret Fell and the rise of Quakerism

By Bonnelyn Young Kunze

James Nayler speaking

By Brian Drayton

"To read James Nayler is to connect with Quakerism's initial eruption of insight and obedience," writes Brian Drayton, who has found, in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend, m...

Faith and Practice 2010 Draft

By Baltimore Yearly Meeting

A Quaker in the zendo

By Steve Smith

History of Westfield Indiana

By Tom Rumer