A Love Letter to My Meeting

A Friend reflects on how her worship community has shaped her.

Nancy L. Bieber

Discerning the Peacemaking Way

Emily Provance on reducing election violence.

Growing and Nurturing Our Relationships

Introduction to our September issue.

A Love Letter to My Meeting

A Friend reflects on how her worship community has shaped her.

True to Your Word

Faithful non-monogamy in Quaker vows.

Written in One Another’s Hearts

Feeling the love of a Quaker great-great-grandmother.

Relationships in the Quaker Community

Unusual connection and the joy of helping.

Growing into Our Perfect Selves

Experiences of Quaker eldering.

The Messy Business of Relationships

Tending the permeable membrane.

We Live Worship

Spiritual nurturing in Quaker intentional communities.

A Perilous Quaker Marriage Proposal

On the day I proposed I first sat in silence / hoping words would rise from the garden paths

Walking Flowers Home

The roadsides where I took my walk were solid, / almost, in September flowers, mustard-colored / sprays, purple spikes, and, mostly, in penumbrae

A September Breakfast in the Piedmont

A grasshopper sat on my toaster today, / Looking puzzled yet nonchalant.

Forum, September 2024

Letters from our readers.

Talking to Trees

On the grounds of the public school, there grows a young white pine tree. But it is not rooted in the ground; rather it springs from the fork in an old sugar maple.

QuakerSpeak, September 2024

The Fruits of our relationship with God.

New Initiative Supports Quaker Public Ministers

Public Friends is a new program to develop and support Quaker public ministers in North America and around the world.

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