2021

Theodora “Dody” Elkinton Waring

Waring—Theodora “Dody” Elkinton Waring, 93, on August 23, 2020, peacefully at the home of her daughter, Abby, in Brunswick, Maine.…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, August 2021

Have you seen the one about the difference between a welcoming and an inclusive space? Friends Lisa Graustein, Anthony Kirk,… Staff
Among Friends

Prophetic Quaker Communities

Introduction to our June-July issue. Martin Kelley
Features

A Utopia in Progress

Communal life at Beacon Hill Friends House Jennifer Newman and Nils Klinkenberg
Features

Utopia Before the Quakers

Thomas More and the Prophetic Purpose of Community Derek Brown
Features

A Glimpse of Heaven on Earth

The First Quaker Communities Stuart Masters
Features

The Land Is Free to All

Hicksite Friends and the Government of God Thomas D. Hamm
Features

Hill of Vision

The Modern Community of Bryn Gweled Robert Dockhorn
Online Features

Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Utopia

"Sometimes I forget how much Virginia Woolf is one of us." Diane Reynolds
Poetry

The Roses

"Beyond the wall the distant roses shone, / the roses not their roses, not their own..." Paul Willis
Poetry

Right Plant, Right Place

Since we chose our seeds / to cast upon rocky soil, / let's not blame the ground. Margaret Fisher
Poetry

If You Can’t Love an Ordinary Bird

"If you can’t love an ordinary bird, / a cardinal, for example, on a branch..." Neil Kennedy
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