Recently, I started attending Quaker Meetings in New York. (The formal name given to Quakers is “The Religious Society of Friends,” and they refer to each other as “Friends.”) I had long been interested in Quakerism; the value it places on authenticity,...
The subject of love has been written on more than any other human emotion. Books, poems, songs, plays, and films accord paeans to its sublime nature, its transformative qualities, its power to both lift us up and to cause us pain when it is lost. And it is complex,...
We all know what “forgiveness” is, right? It’s what you do when you accept an apology from someone for some wrong they have done to you. While that may be the most common form of forgiveness, the question of when and how to forgive can be a bit more complicated....