How a Quaker Meeting Welcomes Military Families

A conversation with Michelle Downey, author of Michelle Downey is author of “Welcome and Grace: How One Meeting Ministers to…

Martin Kelley

Podcast

Quakers, Reparations, and Reparative Economies

Season 6, Episode 5

Podcast

Among Friends

Testing a Testimony

Introduction to our September issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Welcome and Grace

How one meeting ministers to military personnel.

Michelle Downey

Features

Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts

Inside the Guns to Gardens movement.

Scotty Utz

Features

We Must Sing Our Laments Together

On conscientious objection to a world of violence.

Andrew Gorby

Features

It’s Not Just About War

A British Quaker’s view on pacifism today.

Dewi Heald

Features

Learning the Art of Presence

A workshop for justice and peace in Ukraine.

Chris Hunter, O.H. Jackson Napier, and Tanya Williams

Online Features

Toward a Contextual Concept of the Quaker Peace Testimony in Central America

Central Americans’ primary knowledge of the Quaker peace testimony relates to George Fox and the early Quakers.

Jasson Arevalo

Online Features

Seeking the Light of Peace

My experience in the Alternative to Violence Project

Báalam Sáas

Online Features

How Can Friends Confront ICE?

Can our songs melt hearts?

Minga Claggett-Borne

Online Features

Is All Our Work the Peace Testimony?

Reflecting on the inward seeking and the outward practices.

Joan Gunn Broadfield

Poetry

Hello, Sun

With the Quakers, I sit outside the meeting room, under the giant redwood trees.

Jeanne Althouse

Poetry

Consolation

On a loose stone atop the bluestone wall / by the gate, this lichen’s a rough oval . . .

Anne Richey

Poetry

Hospice Bed Tales

If hospice beds could speak / We’d hear not much of ways to die / But of ways to live

Bonnie Stockslager

Forum

Forum, September 2026

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Donald Allen on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

This article cuts through all of the war propaganda and points one, like a compass, in…
Liz Bridgeman on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

I found this a powerful call to my conscience. I am 81 and do not feel…
Phil McLain on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

It seems all too easy to accept the way things are rather than work and pray…
Pierre on Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts

It’s a beautifil initiativ, but as long as your country continues and maintains a philosophy based…