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Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…
Carved in Stone
When Karin Sprague’s father-in-law died suddenly in 1996 she knew what she would do with the rest of her life.…
A Quaker Painter's Challenge
Most everyone has a private challenge. Some are difficult obstacles to overcome, like mountain climbing. Others involve winning races, building…
German Quakers and the Trial of George Grosz
It was 1930, and in Germany the Weimar Republic was visibly in a state of imminent collapse as an ever-intensifying…
Knitting in Gratitude
My recent prayers have been colorful and, frankly, rather woolly. They are relatively quiet, except for the clickety clack of…
My Father's Peace
I am a member of the baby-boom generation, born after the GIs and G-gals came home from the Second World…
True Celebrity
The best thing that happened to me at South Central Yearly Meeting (of which I am not a member) was…
Reconciling the Irreconcilable
I am deeply grateful to the staff of Friends Journal for doing another arts issue—the first since 1979—and for involving…
Art as Soul's Sanctuary: The Making of a Leading
The stuff of the world is there to be made into images that become for us tabernacles of spirituality and…
An Interview with Chuck Fager
Chuck Fager is clerk of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA). He has recently been appointed director of…
Quakers' and Everyones' Need for the Arts
It is quite clear that Quakers need the fine arts. Efforts to make up for the slights that the arts…
Quakers on the Arts, 1658-1995
All ye poets, jesters, rhymers, makers of verses and ballads, who bend your wits to please novelties, light minds, who…
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