The Delight of Being Alive

A walking prayer meditation for healing.

Gail Melix (Greenwater)

Features

Lessons from My Quaker Ancestors and the People They Enslaved

A Friend studies the history of slavery and abolition in his family.

Os Cresson

Features

Learning Our True History

Alaskan Friends seek right relationships with Indigenous peoples.

Jan Bronson

Features

Emblems of Change

Friends’ global responses to the climate crisis.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Edward Hicks's painting, "Noah's Ark," features a line of animals, two by two, walking from right to left across the foreground, then doubling back and walking up a ramp into the ark, which looks like a giant warehouse plopped on top of a giant wooden boat.

Poetry

The Time of Flooding

Noah had a vision. Vesta, his wife, listened. / She was strong and tall. Vesta cut

Elaine Reardon

Legacy (Removed)

If legacy means long arms— / my grandfather’s smile

Bill Shay

Poetry

Turning a Row

how love inscribes its wanderings / in patterns in a Blocks and Strips sheening,

Russell Endo

Forum

Forum, February 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

On the Use of Despair

Despair, like any emotion, must be felt, acknowledged, given room to crescendo, and only then pointed toward action.

Amanda Franklin

Bible Study

In Your Light We See Light

New for 2025, the Bible Study department runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues.

Ron Hogan

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, February 2025

How do Programmed Friends worship?

Staff

FJ Report

With Peace in Sight, Friends Reflect on the Israel–Hamas War

Under a ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt, the Israel–Hamas war that has lasted more than…

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

An Experiment in Holy Abundance

New England Friends make use of a million-dollar windfall.

Mary Link

Among Friends

Where Our Treasure Is

Introduction to our January issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Putting Our Money Where Our Hearts Are

A meeting has conversations about aligning values with finances.

Joann Neuroth

Features

The Joy of Tithing

The gift God wants you to have.

Glenn Morison

Gene T. on Recovering from the Shame of Combat

This is really an extremely important and profound issue. I’m not sure I have the right…
Gerard Guiton on We Are Having an Effect

While I admire, and learn from, Greg Rolles’ activism, I am moved to comment on his…
Philip Fitz on A Union Unlike Any Other

One milestone in the process of acceptance of same-sex marriage was not in the article. Goshen…
Tom Smith on A Union Unlike Any Other

In 1999, Portland Friends School was established. It was a culmination of a committee made up…