April 2024

Among Friends

Resonant Lessons from Nature, Scripture, and Experience

Introduction to our April issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

A Quaker Guide to Birdwatching

Eight lessons for Friends and seekers. Rebecca Heider
Features

My Dad’s Green Burial

How a family chose a meaningful resting place. Christine Ashley
Features

The Gospel Model of Fatherly Love

A Friend looks to the New Testament and poems of Kahlil Gibran to understand parenthood. John Andrew Gallery
Features

Planting Ourselves in Time and Place

An expanded vision of conscientious objection. J. E. McNeil
Features

Quakers Partner to Aid Survivors of Sexual Violence in Uganda

A profile of Bulungi Tree Shade Meeting and its U.S. supporters. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Ollie Ollie 

Giggling, she runs from the family room couch / where I sit and count, both hands over my eyes. Carl “Papa” Palmer
Poetry

Little Gospel

At that time Jesus said, / Plant trees easy James Littwin
Poetry

Kaddish for Death and Childbirth קדיש

Her breath rose and fell / spaces between in and out growing wider Carole Fults
Forum

Forum, April 2024

Letters from our readers. Staff
April 2024 Books

Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist

By Ruth Tod. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. I never devoted much time to reading…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

April 2024 Books

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises

By Marjorie Kelly. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023. 256 pages. $22.95/paperback or eBook. Anyone who feels the weight of White supremacy—or sees…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

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