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God Chose What Is Low and Despised in the World

The blessed community’s covenant nullifies and voids every social hierarchy placing some people above others. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

I Delight to Do Your Will, O My God

“How can we be made in the image of God and not be built for care, solidarity, and love?” Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

May God Give You a Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation

Friends viewed direct contact from Spirit, and the communion that followed from it, as central to their religious identity. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

The Word Is Very Near to You

Revelation may not impose God’s will upon us so much as it draws out the potential already within us. Ron Hogan

Look to the Light: A Quaker.org column

This Teaching Is Difficult; Who Can Accept It?

Some may find “the work of God” much harder than others—especially when we’re called to apply it consistently to everyone. Ron Hogan