QuakerSpeak, September 2025

The Quaker approach to the Bible.

Staff

Jim Fussell on Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement banner

Quaker Author Podcast

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement: Jim Fussell

Jim Fussell's article, “Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement,” appears in the August 2025 issue.

Martin Kelley

Quaker Author Podcast

Lynette Love: Education and Empowerment in Post-Civil War America

Lynette Love's article, “Led by God to Help Educate Freedmen,” appears in the August 2025 issue.

Martin Kelley

Among Friends

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

Features

Led by God to Help Educate Freedmen

The history of Laing School.

Lynette Love

Features

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

Bible Study

Blessed Are the Meek

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

Judith Inskeep

Liz Oppenheimer on Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

I appreciated the article about Friends’ responses to Operation Metro Surge. There were of course other…
George Busolo Lukalo on Making My Life a Testimony

So amazing being a Quaker. More to learn and live as a Quaker is my desire….
John Newkirk on The Journey Back to God

First I am sorry for your loss and I would just like to say addiction is…
Nate on The Journey Back to God

Robin, that is a strong story, and I’m so glad you’re still here in the land…