Isolated Friends and Meetings

March 2023

Among Friends

The Changing Nature of Isolation in Quakerism Today

Introduction to our March issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

Nothing Can Separate Us from the Light

How isolated are we? Linda Seger
Features

Screen-Weary and Lonely

A case for plain, tech-free worship. Helen Berkeley
Features

I Am Always Seeking

One Friend’s experience as an isolated Quaker. William Kiel
Features

Zoom Spells Doom and Gloom

The false promise of virtual meetings. Anita Bushell
Features

We Listen as God Listens

Cultivating sacred space online. Ann Jerome
Features

Mixed Blessings

A Friends Journal report on virtual meetings. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Prayer

"Instead of hush / I wander looking / for the door." Karen Greenler
Poetry

A Kinder Solitude

"After a year of living alone / I have come to know me." Fred Gerhard
Poetry

March invited me outside today / To join her festival / Of dancing tree tops

March stays for thirty-one days / and yet I barely know her, / a bridge between February and April /… Edith Silvestri
Forum

Forum, March 2023

Letters from our readers Staff
March 2023 Books

Finding Yourself in Chaos: Self-Discovery for Religious Leaders in a Time of Transition

By James R. Newby and Mark Minear. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 168 pages. $65/hardcover; $22/paperback; $20/eBook. When T. Canby Jones,… Alla Podolsky
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