Reading of Maryhelen Snyder’s “Love Story”

A meeting finds a loving way to include a member with hearing impairment.

Maryhelen Snyder

Audio

A reading of Helen Kobek’s “Accommodating Embodiment within Our Meetings”

Every body entering a meetinghouse has needs that must be met. An Friends Journal podcast.

Helen Kobek

Among Friends: An Effort of Love

An introduction to the March issue.

Martin Kelley

Forum March 2016

Letters from our readers

Staff

Love—Even for Myself

Our March 2016 Viewpoint

Kim

Features

Accommodating Embodiment within Our Meetings

Every body entering a meetinghouse has needs that must be met.

Helen Kobek

Features

Love Story

A meeting finds a loving way to include a member with hearing impairment.

Maryhelen Snyder

Features

Imagining a Trauma-informed Quaker Community

Stigma and fear can make it difficult to see people as more than their disabilities.

Melody George

Features

Being Autistic at Summer Gathering

An overload of auditory and visual stimuli threatens a Friend's participation.

Veronica Berg

Features

L’Arche and Quaker Testimonies of Equality and Peace

A movement serving those with intellectual disabilities demonstrates what it means to be human.

Timothy Leonard

Features

Disability and Community in L’Arche Atlanta

A gift of respect from those we're ostensibly serving.

Adrian Nelson

Poetry

No One Ever Asks

FJ Poetry: "I only attend once a month / when my allotted cab ride / takes me and my wheelchair / fifty kilometers north."

Bryan R. Monte

Poetry

Low-Rent Psalm

FJ Poetry: "Yahweh, / You are my umbrella / in thunderstorm, / fleece-lined boots in the great blizzard."

Patrick Gordon

Lives of Friends

Cheering, Leveling, Threshing: A Weekly Hour in the Light

Lives of Friends.

Helen S. Horn

Let's Grow Together

Let’s Grow Together: Lucia O’Barr

Interviews with new Friends.

Trevor Johnson

News

News March 2016

News of Friends, including a Quaker art exhibit in Montana and the FWCC World Plenary in Peru.

Staff

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…