Finding Direction and Comfort

Introduction to our September issue.

Martin Kelley

Shining Our Light Before Others

A Quaker’s thoughts on the new American papacy.

Evan Welkin

We the People Have No King

Five ways Friends can preserve democracy.

Anthony Manousos

We Are Having an Effect

The necessity of spiritual resistance in climate and justice activism.

Greg Rolles

I Ain’t Marching Anymore

A Vietnam War resister’s journey of conscience.

Ronald Marullo

Recovering from the Shame of Combat

The power of narrative to heal.

Edward W. Wood Jr.

Seeing Light in Everyone

Encounters between Quakers and incarcerated people.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Do, re, mi

Sitting quietly in Quaker Meeting, it occurred to me / that honesty is one of the luxuries

Charles Weld

Song before Sleep

The broad-tailed hummers / sing high in the piñon.

Wayne Lee

September 29

Every year on September 29 / they gather.

Nancy Thomas

Forum, September 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Life in the Meeting

Baking Bread Together

A Synagogue and a Meeting share a mission for peace.

Neal Burdick

QuakerSpeak, September 2025

The Quaker approach to the Bible.

Staff

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Learning from Our History, and Making Our Own

Introduction to our August issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement

A moral reckoning.

Jim Fussell

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Philip Fitz on A Union Unlike Any Other

One milestone in the process of acceptance of same-sex marriage was not in the article. Goshen…
Tom Smith on A Union Unlike Any Other

In 1999, Portland Friends School was established. It was a culmination of a committee made up…
Sydney on Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement

Hi! Nice article. I think it important to point out that rather than give up their…
Jeffrey Plaut on Forum, August 2025

ON Inflammatory language: What’s inflammatory to one, is a cry for peace and a homeland to…

QuakerSpeak

Transforming the SPIRIT: Liberation Theology and the Inner Light

Transformando el cuaquerismo en tiempos difíciles

Kubadilisha Quakerism katika Nyakati za Matatizo

Transforming Quakerism in Troubling Times

El arte espiritual de Lars Hertervig

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