What We Cannot Do Alone

A new way of relating is breaking through our institutional numbness.

Noah Merrill

Features

Worshiping Online

An experiment with online programmed meeting for worship.

Rachel Guaraldi

Features

Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?

Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?

Thomas Hamm

Features

Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem

We have to find ways to build relationships and maintain our Quaker tradition.

Margaret Fraser

Poetry

After Mowing Hay

FJ Poetry: "After a June day's work, having driven…"

Melva Priddy

Poetry

A Grace of Thanksgiving

FJ Poetry: "We are cooking / and talking about how some foods"

Michael S. Glaser

News

News, June/July 2017

News: Albuquerque Friends provide sanctuary; Friends engage in immigrant work; Bridge Film Festival announces winners; Earlham College receives $7.5 million gift; Oread Friends install a Little Free Library.

Staff

Online Features

ePublishers of Truth

The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends.

Kathleen Wooten

Online Features

Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance

Lives of Friends

The Value of Seminary

Lives of Friends: "But why go to seminary?"

Ashley M. Wilcox

Online Features

It Breaks My Heart

The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend's heart

Kate Pruitt

Online Features

We Need a YAF

We have a disconnect between faith and practice.

Mackenzie Morgan

Online Features

Membership as Commitment and Belonging

Is membership a pragmatic arrangement or a spiritual experience?

Marisa Johnson

Poetry

On a Friend’s 70th Birthday

FJ Poetry: His feet walk daily paths, as duties call…

Bob Welsh

Full Access

Quaker Summers: May Full Issue Access

Members can download full PDF or read any article online.

Staff

Among Friends: A Piece of the Answer

An introduction to the May 2017 issue on the fourth annual Student Voices Project and Quaker Summers.

Gail Whiffen

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…