Building Up the Kingdom of God

Talking with Quaker candidates in Indiana elections.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Podcast

From Personal Finances to Collective Power

Season 6, Episode 6

Podcast

Among Friends

Restoring Our Parts of the World

Introduction to our October issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Restore the Timeline

Learning to live in the 200-year present.

S.E.W. Smith

Features

Like Dew on the Tender Plants

Coming together to protect our immigrant neighbors.

Michelle Downey

Features

An Extremist for Love

The resurrection and the life of Jesus.

Christopher Stern

Features

Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence

The Inner Light of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

tonya thames-taylor

Features

Forgotten Photos Identify Vietnam War Political Prisoners

A Quaker antiwar activist’s documentation reconnects people decades later.

Jane Griffith Barton

Features

Disability, Faith, and Guatemala’s Social Debt

A Quaker perspective from Latin America.

Belén Hernández

Online Features

“Beyond Majority Rule,” Four Decades Later

An interview with Michael J. Sheeran.

Alastair McIntosh

Online Features

Toward a Quaker Pedagogy

A grad returning to teach reflects on the purpose of Friends schools.

Jack Tripp

Poetry

Go to the Well at Siloam

Tell the waters who sent you. / Soak in them. There’s nothing special / about Siloam, nor in your moans.

Shaun Anthony McMichael

Poetry

School Nights

Our DSM-IV* was a blooming garden / Of highlighted pages, sticky notes,

Casey Morris

Poetry

Some Solace

penning new poems / as old age approaches.

Daniel Skach-Mills

Forum

Forum, October 2026

Letters from our readers

Staff

Quakers and Money

Budgets as a Tool for Liberation

A budget can be an essential tool for liberation—a place where we can put our values into action.

Diana Yañez

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