“I belong to a tradition that really emphasizes finding God in community, and in listening deeply within for the inner light; the inner teacher.” This week brings us to a relatively young faith – a ...
Still waters are said to run deep. To the uninformed eye, there might appear to be nothing happening at a Quaker meeting. Come Sunday morning, in pre-pandemic times, members and attenders of Colorado ...
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by President Donald Trump’s administration. PRINCETON, ...
I didn’t expect to experience this lesson so clearly the first time I visited a Quaker meeting. About 30 minutes into the shared silence—the community gathered in a circle, each person listening ...
One of the Scribbler’s collateral ancestors, Daniel Gibbons, published “God in Us,’’ a brief book about “Quakerism,’’ in 1928. Gibbons worked as a journalist in New York and Philadelphia. In his youth ...
THE QUAKERS are well-known as the least doctrinaire of all the religious movements that have emerged from Christianity. Silent reflection has been the hallmark of their gatherings ever since 1652 when ...