MaryKate Morse is professor of leadership and spiritual formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and the director of strategic planning for the university. Query—Should pacifists offer support and compassion to military families? I have a son in the Air Force, now stationed in Afghanistan. I have a father whose first career was as an Air [...]

Amy Saxton (shown graduating here from Newberg High School) attends North Valley Friends and was the 2010 youth representative. In July 2009, the Youth Yearly Meeting officers believed that God wanted me to be the youth representative for Yearly Meeting 2010. This meant I would represent NWYM at another Friends Yearly Meeting. I was immediately excited [...]

Gar Mickelson serves NWYM as associate superintendent of local outreach and pastoral care. In a hurried, superficial, and consumer-oriented culture, the absolute best gift we can give this Christmas season is our time. This holiday season billions of dollars will be spent on material things that we hope will say “I care about you” when, [...]

Nancy Thomas is a NWYM missionary to Latin America. For the last several years Hal and I have facilitated writer workshops for Latin American Friends. Fifty budding writers from five countries attend. This year I have been editing a collection of first-person stories tentatively titled Fire from the South: The Life and Faith of Latin [...]

Jamie Johnson attends Newberg Friends and is director of the George Fox University Friends Leadership Program. “The God I know does not ask us to conform to some abstract norm for the ideal self. God asks us only to honor our created nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials.” – Parker Palmer, Let Your [...]