August 2023

August 2023

Among Friends

To Be Seen and Loved

Introduction to our August issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

Hitchhiking as a Spiritual Discipline

An open road readies a seeker for saying yes to God. Kat Griffith
Features

She Told Me Save the Flower

An incarcerated Quaker artist’s feminist awakening. Judy Meikle
Features

Allowable Diversions

A Friend explores the morality of hunting. Timothy Tarkelly
Features

Who Gets to Be Safe?

Struggling to find unity on gun-free zones in a Texas meeting. Katharine Jager
Features

Benjamin Lay’s Medicine

Healing our communities from White supremacy and slavery. Lucy Duncan and Rob Peagler
Online Features

SPICES Testimonies and the Biblical Roots of Quakerism: Pointing to the Moon

SPICES testimonies and the biblical roots of Quakerism. Gene Hillman
Poetry

Morning Prayer

While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Hoeing an Apple Tree

To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future Cynthia Gallaher
Poetry

Glaciers

The shovel, striking a root, thunked / all the way down to my moist heart.  John Kucera
Forum

Forum, August 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Service

I Came to Serve

Quakers and Alternatives to Violence in Bolivia. Magaly Quispe Yujra, with editorial support and translation from Barbara Flynn
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