Musings of a Quaker Witch (Pagan Quaker)

After wrestling for several hours with the budget proposal for Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns , I surfe...

This is one of those recipes that is so time-of-year specific that it seems perfectly appropriate that it was our dinner on the summer solst...

Yesterday was the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere: the day with the most hours of light and the fewest hours of darkness in Earth...

I received word this week that my interest group proposal was accepted. Here's the wording that I finally condensed it into (the guidel...

I'd like to recommend Cat Chapin-Bishop's guest post at The Wild Hunt blog .  Especially for those days when you feel like if you h...

I don't have a sense of how much my regular readers know about some of the struggles I've been engaged in within Quakerism over the ...

Earlier this year, I submitted an article to Friends Journal for their upcoming special issue on the Peace Testimony . I'd felt compell...

Happy Beltane and May Day! Beltane/May Day is the cross-quarter day that falls half-way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. In the ...

Hal-an-Tow, traditional English May Day song Hal-an-tow jolly rumble-o we were up long before the day-o to welcome in the summer sun to...

Over the last few months, quite a number Pagan Friends participated in interviews with religion reporter Matthew Streib of the Religion Ne...

from Jen and Nif: Greetings, and happy springtime! SpiralSong will be presenting a spring concert at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Ai...

I'd like to recommend my friend Michelle's article, " Don't wait for the 'right room' to pray ." (I know we Qu...

As some of you know, my surrogate brother was, until very recently, in the Marine Corps. In some ways, there's the kind of tension you ...

March 30's Oh My Gods! reminded me of something. Many years ago, I was attending a meeting after work one night just before Easter and ...

While Peeps were originally an Easter candy, they've come to fill many other roles over the years. For example, they were often an impo...

I am in the middle of a stressful, anxiety-producing couple of weeks -- a lot of life is happening in a short period. On the plus side, it...

My final rainbow shawl commission is done! I just have to put it in the mail. Hooray! I have now done five of these -- the original one, t...

Here 's a fairly good video -- " History of the Holidays: Easter " -- from History.com , regarding how certain practices and c...

This year's Friends General Conference Gathering will be held in Johnstown, PA, from 28 June through 5 July. Gathering can be a truly wo...

The theme for this year's Gathering of Friends General Conference is "Courageously Faithful." Thanks to my Beloved Wife, I s...