“The Work Had Spread”: Harriet Heath and The Quaker Parenting Initiative

How do we support parents in their journey with children? How do we allow way to open in a leading? Harriet Heath is the founder of the Quaker Parenting Initiative. This small non-profit offers retreats, literature, virtual support groups and a one-on-one presence to the Quaker parents of children of all ages.  ____________________________________________________________________________________________ I want …

Resource: Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC). An Interview With Co-Founder Melinda Bradley

How does your meeting attend to the religious education and spiritual formation of Friends at every age?  Today I want to share an invaluable resource that can provide much needed curriculum ideas for Friends of all ages, inspiration, and most importantly: community for teachers. An independent non-profit, the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC), seeks to support …

Conflict Vs Abuse: Advices for Quakers

Last week I posted about Iowa Friend Judy Brutz and her landmark research about and for Friends and our relationship to domestic violence in the 1980s. As a follow up to that I wanted to share a resource my husband came across some years ago that has been profoundly helpful to how we think about …

Friend Judy Brutz and Her Landmark Domestic Violence Research on and for Quakers

In February of 1984 Friend Judy Brutz, then a young mother and master's student at Iowa State University, wrote and published in The Journal of Marriage and Family a study of liberal Quakers and family violence. She was expecting to find that, because of our peace testimony, and our public commitment to pacifism, we would …