Lessons from History

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Learning from Our History, and Making Our Own

Introduction to our August issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement

A moral reckoning. Jim Fussell
Features

The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

What our Quaker ancestors can teach us about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Trudy Bayer
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Led by God to Help Educate Freedmen

The history of Laing School. Lynette Love
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A Fine Union of Serenity and Adventure

How Rufus Jones recovered his lost radiance. Barbara Birch
Features

Quaker Witnessing During Philadelphia’s MOVE Crisis

Moving toward risky solidarity. Natalie Fraser and Chioma Ibida
Features

A Union Unlike Any Other

U.S. Quakers’ shifting views on same-sex marriage. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Pondering

His mother isn’t mentioned in the parable / of the prodigal. No surprises about that. But Dora Dueck
Poetry

While We Sleep

Last night, / a creature / bounded / down the / path and / brushed against / my tent Joan MacIntosh
Poetry

My daughter at twelve

She searches the crowd at the school carnival, / seeking ramps that reach the merry-go-round’s edge. Diem Okoye
Forum

Forum, August 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
Viewpoint

Hold Yourself in the Light

We must daily submit ourselves to the work of the Light. Dave Leverett
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