Fostering Empathy Through Fiction Writing: A Conversation with Peterson Toscano

Peterson Toscano's "What is Actually There" appears in the November 2025 issue.

Martin Kelley

Podcast

Quakers and the Mystery of Worship

Season 5 episode 3 of Quakers Today

Podcast

News

Eight Quaker Organizations Draft and Sign Statement Saying Genocide Is Occurring in Gaza

The statement calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Welcome to Our Fifth Annual Fiction Issue

Introduction to our November issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

Peterson Toscano

Features

My Troublesome BFFs

Nineteenth-century Quaker troublemakers tumble out of the library stacks.

Margaret Cotton

Features

My Ghosts

Who will speak for the unmarked dead?

Lilian Edmonds

Features

A Fine Showing for the Court of Owls

Benjamin Lay comes back home from yearly meeting.

Jonathan Doering

Features

A Silver Trumpet Calls

Respectability and frivolity collide with a call to service.

Barbara Swander Miller

Features

The Comfort of Horror

An interview with American author Chuck Wendig.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

Out of the Mouths

Simon’s mobile sounded as he finished breakfast. His wife answered, “Lambert residence, June speaking. Oh, hello Mrs. Thompson. . ."

John Crompton

Online Features

The Body

The sun trumpeted morning to the sleeping stranger, but Mark Jacobs didn’t return the greeting.

Nichole Nettleton

Online Features

Brothers

Over and over they were born, those brothers, always catching at each other’s heels.

Anne E.G. Nydam

Online Features

A Place to Begin

It was the tapping that first made Janice aware of him. She looked up and located the source of the irritating noise.

Ken Gibble

Poetry

Coffee Hour, 1965

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our

Sara Clancy

Poetry

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth

Leigh Gavin Harder

Jan Wright on A Union Unlike Any Other

As one of the Ann Arbor Friends who was quoted in the August article on same…
Douglas on Recovering from the Shame of Combat

This essay is incredibly moving and courageous. Your willingness to speak openly about the long-lasting emotional…
Mary Linda McKinney on The Body

What a great last line, Nichole. This has the uneasy ambiguity of a Shirley Jackson story…with…
Susan on What Is Actually There

Wow! Profound. Truth captured with a layering effect: Mom, the old man, the snake, the meeting,…