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As Effects Ripple Out, Quakers React to Devastating USAID Cuts

Quakers who worked for international development organizations and residents of developing countries have lost jobs due to recent suspension of… Sharlee DiMenichi

Being Ready for the Seekers

Introduction to our June-July issue. Martin Kelley

Dandelion Boy

The history tour ends / in the cemetery filled with headstones, Gay Norton Edelman

First Meditation

Lands, oceans of light open / the night where I learn to swim Laurinda Lind

Knees

As children, we knelt to pray. Joints, cartilage, / bones, though new, though barely tested, Dora Dueck

Forum, June-July 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff

Breaking the Silence

What my cardiac arrest during meeting for worship taught me. Christine W. Hartmann

Faith and Practice

The Gift of Presence Is Enough

Building the beloved community invites all of us to be available and present for each other. Mary Ann Downey

Love Your Neighbor Is a Call to Action

Jesus said we will know his true followers by their fruit. Tim Gee

Susan Frances Kenoyer Dent

Dent—Susan Frances Kenoyer Dent, 82, on October 6, 2024, peacefully, surrounded by family in Greensboro, N.C. Susan was born on…

Evangeline Joye Breyfogle Hoffmann

Hoffmann—Evangeline Joye Breyfogle Hoffmann, 93, on August 25, 2024, peacefully, at Seven Acres Senior Living’s skilled nursing facility in Cincinnati,…

Robert Atkinson Seeley

Seeley—Robert Atkinson Seeley, 81, on October 4, 2024, of complications from age-associated issues, at his home in the Germantown neighborhood…

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Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty

March 1, 2025

Sweet Home Monteverde and A Long Walk, a Gradual Ascent: The Story of the Bolivian Friends Church in Its Context of Conflict

November 1, 2020

Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries

February 1, 2019