Learning from Our History, and Making Our Own

Introduction to our August issue.

Gabriel Ehri

The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

What our Quaker ancestors can teach us about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Trudy Bayer

Led by God to Help Educate Freedmen

The history of Laing School.

Lynette Love

A Fine Union of Serenity and Adventure

How Rufus Jones recovered his lost radiance.

Barbara Birch

Quaker Witnessing During Philadelphia’s MOVE Crisis

Moving toward risky solidarity.

Natalie Fraser and Chioma Ibida

A Union Unlike Any Other

U.S. Quakers’ shifting views on same-sex marriage.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Pondering

His mother isn’t mentioned in the parable / of the prodigal. No surprises about that. But

Dora Dueck

While We Sleep

Last night, / a creature / bounded / down the / path and / brushed against / my tent

Joan MacIntosh

My daughter at twelve

She searches the crowd at the school carnival, / seeking ramps that reach the merry-go-round’s edge.

Diem Okoye

Forum, August 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Hold Yourself in the Light

We must daily submit ourselves to the work of the Light.

Dave Leverett

Blessed Are the Meek

New for 2025, the Bible Study column runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues.

Judith Inskeep

Nantucket Bones: My Quaker Identity Considered

The foundational qualities—my past, my body, my mind—are all informed by Quakerism.

A.V. Crofts

QuakerSpeak, August 2025

Quakers sue DHS over immigration enforcement.

Staff

FBI Agents Seize Quaker Activist from His Home in Morning Raid [Updated]

Robert “Jacob” Hoopes, a Portland, Oregon man with ties to Newtown (Pa.) Meeting was arrested by FBI agents on Friday, July 25.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Guilford College Accreditation at Risk as School Struggles to Balance Budget

Guilford College could lose its accreditation due to financial problems, according to a December 2024 disclosure statement by SACSCOC.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Load More

Bill Samuel on Revivalist Friends and the Second Quaker Explosion

In the 19th century, the revivalist movement was strongly tied to social reform movements. In the…
Rose on Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

I loved this book, as do I, Mirabei’s other books. No nonsense and deep imbued with…
Carol Barclay on The 120-Year Revival

Sue, thank you for this article. Wonderful !! So glad you are on the Committee that…
George Rubin on Being Ready for the Seekers

The June/July issue of Friends Journal relating to Quaker Revival is excellent. I would like to…

QuakerSpeak

Spiritual Artistry of Lars Hertervig

Understanding the Quaker Peace Testimony

Identity and Christianity: Navigating Gender Transition as a Quaker

The Quaker Approach to the Bible

A Common Testimony of Abuse: Laboring With the Violence in Our Lives

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