And Yet Still We Worship

Introduction to our October issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Beyond Politeness

Confronting and transforming pain in our meetings.

Johanna Jackson

Features

Say His Name

A White Quaker’s approach to racial justice.

Anthony Manousos

Features

Stirring Things Up by Being Ourselves

An interview with Nichole Nettleton on differently abled Friends and allies.

Carl Blumenthal

Features

Touched by Death and Dying

A Friend recounts sacred moments of transition between this world and the next.

Marcelle Martin

Online Features

The Bridge of Friendship

What does it really mean to be a Friend?

Jack Ciancio

Online Features

Integrity in the Time of Overshoot

Acknowledging Our Participation in the Industrialized World.

Ashley Macmillan and Grant Galbreath

Poetry

Acer Macrophyllum

FJ Poetry: “The moment of detachment, petiole from stem, goes unnoticed…”

Linda Phillips

Poetry

The Cyclist

FJ Poetry: “For twenty years I’d see her on her bike…”

Karen Kilcup

Poetry

In the City of the Dead

FJ Poetry: “On the way to the airport, I left the pair of Keens you bought me…”

Holly Iglesias

Forum

Forum, October 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Divine Creative Guidance and the Body

To truly know Spirit I need to admit the physicality of divine guidance.

Jesse White

Quaker Works

Quaker Works October 2022

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.

Quaker Works

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, October 2022

On Quaker Deathways

Staff

Poetry

The Day After

"The morning after the storm / small clusters of maple leaves / scatter over the yard. It must / have been some wind. . ."

Mary Jean Port

Online Features

You Are the Light of the World

In community we can equip ourselves to be not only the Quakers the world needs but the Friends that the earth needs, too.

Tim Gee

Gary Evans on The Absence of Art or the Art of Absence?

During the worst days of Covid I had time to create some Quaker music. My inspiration…
Keith Barton on The Absence of Art or the Art of Absence?

The author responds briefly: I am enormously grateful for the published responses to my article, Art…
Liz Wiener on Art Is Praying with My Whole Body

Many years ago I danced in the middle of Quaker Meeting. It was lovely.
Paula Schroeder on It’s Not a Luxury

Thank you Johanna, for helping us to understand that, though art is not a luxury, it…