September 2025

Among Friends

Finding Direction and Comfort

Introduction to our September issue. Martin Kelley
Features

Shining Our Light Before Others

A Quaker’s thoughts on the new American papacy. Evan Welkin
Features

We the People Have No King

Five ways Friends can preserve democracy. Anthony Manousos
Features

We Are Having an Effect

The necessity of spiritual resistance in climate and justice activism. Greg Rolles
Features

I Ain’t Marching Anymore

A Vietnam War resister’s journey of conscience. Ronald Marullo
Features

Recovering from the Shame of Combat

The power of narrative to heal. Edward W. Wood Jr.
Features

Seeing Light in Everyone

Encounters between Quakers and incarcerated people. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Do, re, mi

Sitting quietly in Quaker Meeting, it occurred to me / that honesty is one of the luxuries Charles Weld
Poetry

Song before Sleep

The broad-tailed hummers / sing high in the piñon. Wayne Lee
Poetry

September 29

Every year on September 29 / they gather. Nancy Thomas
Forum

Forum, September 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
FJ Spotlight

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center. Sharlee DiMenichi
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