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Detail from Japanese Pearl Harbor attack plan. Source . First, a few words about our latest war. When I heard the first news bulletins about...

Looking at Rublyov's Trinity . Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2016. Psalm 122:1. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the hou...

The Atlantic Ocean. During the years we visited and lived in Russia, we were active in the Friends Meeting in Moscow. That small Quaker co...

If there's such a thing as Quaker communion, is it more like what some of us call open worship, or more like a potluck? (For the moment,...

Yesterday I was startled by the sound of an airplane overhead. Until just a couple of weeks ago, I wouldn't have been able to write th...

Fritz Eichenberg, Christ of the Breadlines The "Thursday group," a circle of Friends who meet on two Thursdays a month, invi...

I have several gigabytes of music on this computer, and I'm not listening to any of it. This is one of those times when silence is the b...