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

A Quaker’s Gun

When the patriots came to seize the weapons.

Vickie Aldrich

Features

The Comfort of Horror

An interview with American author Chuck Wendig.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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

Poetry

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29

Anne Maren-Hogan

Forum

Forum, October 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Faith and Practice

Stand Still Where the Strength Is

Margaret Fell for modern Friends.

Shulamith Clearbridge

Bible Study

I Have Set Before You Today Life and Prosperity

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

Ron Hogan

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, November 2025

Spiritual artistry of Lars Hertervig

Staff

News

U.S. Pacific-Area Quakers Join Third Lawsuit Against DHS

More meetings have joined a July lawsuit against DHS over the threat of federal immigration enforcement in houses of worship.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Quaker Author Podcast

Reviving Queer Worship: A Journey Through Time and Community

A Quaker author chat. R.E. Martin and Jason A. Terry’s “Advices and Que[e]ries: Chosen Family and Chosen Ancestors,” appears in…

Martin Kelley

Gene T. on Recovering from the Shame of Combat

This is really an extremely important and profound issue. I’m not sure I have the right…
Gerard Guiton on We Are Having an Effect

While I admire, and learn from, Greg Rolles’ activism, I am moved to comment on his…
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…