Being a Friendly Adult Presence in the Lives of Young Friends: What Would Tom Fox Do?

My 15-year-old son Jonathan dragged his tired body in the door, trailing his sleeping bag and pillow, exhausted but with… Peggy O'Neill

Young Friends Need More Substance

What I have appreciated most about Friends is the way they have welcomed me into their Religious Society, both in… Zachary Hoyt

Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir

Hanna: The Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir was started during a now-annual First-day school fundraiser for a school in El… Kickapoo Young Friends Choir

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker

You can raise a Quaker without First-day school, without lesson plans, even without figuring out "what every Quaker child needs… Gail Eastwood

Friendly Partners Program

When our Quaker children become teenagers our meetings lose touch with them. They seem to disappear into the abyss of… Elizabeth Claggett-Borne

Why High School Sucked and How Young Friends Saved My Life

Shortly after graduating from high school I read an article stating that the reason adolescents place so much emphasis on… Jon Watts

Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be… Adam Waxman

Forging the Ties that Bind: Supporting Quaker Youth

I have often wondered why I alone of my three siblings am still active in Quaker circles. We all attended… Maia Carter Hallward

A Young Friend at the UN

Upon graduating from Beloit College last year, I began work at Quaker United Nations Office in New York as a… Jill Terrell

A Letter from Bolivia

Fourth Month, Fifth Day, 2007 Dear friends and family, I know that it has only been a week since I… Andrew Esser-Haines

Interning at FCNL

Graduating from college, moving away from home, and starting a first post-graduation job are rites of passage into the adult… Maureen Brookes

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The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth

June 1, 2026

Is Peace Possible?

June 1, 2026

Turning Toward the Victim: The Bible, Sacred Violence, and the End of Scapegoating in Quaker Perspective

June 1, 2026