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I Mourn, and Horror Has Seized Me

Or, as Robert Alter vividly translates Jeremiah 8:21, “I plunge in doom, desolation has gripped me.” Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

Fools Say in Their Hearts, “There Is No God”

Society drifts further and further from the covenant; people become “all alike perverse.” Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

I Have Set Before You Today Life and Prosperity

We can learn to view others with love, to see their happiness bound up with our own. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

O That My People Would Listen to Me

Quakers hold meetings for business not to decide what we want, but to listen for Spirit’s calling. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

You Shall Go to All to Whom I Send You

We like to think that if Spirit came to us with a calling, we could drop everything to follow where… Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

Let the One Who Has My Word Speak My Word Faithfully

We should make our lives a counterexample, challenging evil rather than accepting complicity. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

Abraham Looked Forward to the City That Has Foundations

Abraham humbled himself and became obedient to the point not only of his own death, but to Isaac’s as well. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

Mortals Cannot Abide in Their Pomp

As the Common English Bible puts it, “people won’t live any longer because of wealth.” Though Lord knows they try. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

He Disarmed the Rulers and Authorities

As Paul saw it, Jesus didn’t just offer some new ideas, he rendered all other philosophies of life powerless. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

They Shall Run To and Fro, Seeking the Word of the Lord

Any message that permits us to not love someone else, to treat them unjustly, does not come from God. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

And the Lord Took Me from Following the Flock

Prophets, the twentieth-century rabbi Abraham J. Heschel tells us, strive “to reconcile man and God.” Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

Your Peace Will Rest on That Person

Jesus gave his first followers clear instructions on how to move through the world. Ron Hogan

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