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Podcast

Quaker organizations issue joint statement on peace testimony and Ukraine

On October 26, eight Quaker organization heads issued a joint statement on the peace testimony and Ukraine. The statement notes:…

FJ News Editors

Witness

Interview with Olha Lychko-Parubocha of Friends Peace Teams in Ukraine

Olha Lychko-Parubocha is a Ukrainian psychologist who has been working in the IDP camps in Lviv since April.

Gail Whiffen

Among Friends

Friendly Fiction

Introduction to our November issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Clarity

Wedding preparations get complicated after a long afternoon with the clearness committee.

Kathleen Bell

Features

The Conduits

A young girl starts to literally see the light connecting Friends in worship.

Anne E.G. Nydam

Features

The Donkey Rider

A noisy crowd gathers around a storytelling carpenter.

Charles Bunner

Features

Welcome

A young couple with a secret endure a long ocean passage.

Kate Bahlke Hornstein

Features

Born on the Wrong Side of Justice

A family remembers its stories and the oppressions of lands lost and taken.

Dwight L. Wilson

Features

Make Freedom Ring!

An orphan girl’s foster Quaker family disappears one day, leaving a mysterious note.

Deborah Ramsey

Features

Investor Prospectus for the Citadel Fund

Luxury homes for deposed dictators seeking a safe and dignified retirement.

Kat Griffith

Poetry

Alone

"After God left me, / I got along all right for a while…"

Elizabeth Boardman

Poetry

Savior

"In the stooped squat of age, I grab a plastic cup and lid…"

Marjorie Gowdy

Poetry

Female Brain Running

"Recently I fell for clickbait because the tagline sounded so binary and sexist / that I wanted to see just how dumb it was…"

Lindsay-Rose Dykema

Forum

Forum, November 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Life in the Meeting

Reading to Feed Our Souls

Nearly ten years ago, we started monthly reading groups at Santa Monica (Calif.)

Stanford Searl

Virginia Ferm Herrick on The Conduits

Lovely! Thank you for this story. Growing up Quaker, as a kid I imagined the connections…
Amy on Clarity

I loved this story. the description and power of the silence is moving. I liked how…
Leslie Saunders on Say His Name

I grew upunder Jim Crow as a Southerner,but I naively thought we were farther along,until the…
philip marden on The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

The book assumes that the wealth-concentrating, climate and ecosystem destabilizating, democracy-eroding. individuating and addicting system of…