Toward a Quaker Pedagogy

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

Jack Tripp

From Personal Finances to Collective Power

Season 6, Episode 6

Restoring Our Parts of the World

Introduction to our October issue.

Restore the Timeline

Learning to live in the 200-year present.

Like Dew on the Tender Plants

Coming together to protect our immigrant neighbors.

An Extremist for Love

The resurrection and the life of Jesus.

Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence

The Inner Light of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Forgotten Photos Identify Vietnam War Political Prisoners

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

Disability, Faith, and Guatemala’s Social Debt

A Quaker perspective from Latin America.

Ending Outward Wars

The Quaker influence on the United Nations.

Beyond Majority Rule, Four Decades Later

An interview with Michael J. Sheeran.

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.

School Nights

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

Some Solace

penning new poems / as old age approaches.

Forum, October 2026

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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.

“I Was in Prison, and You Visited Me”

Friends' encounters with detained immigrants.

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