Monkey Mind

Life distractions intrude on the silent worship.

Lynn Gazis

Online Features

Good

A creator delights in creation.

Anne E.G. Nydam

Online Features

Penn’s Spring

A mysterious damp patch on a wall in the meetinghouse portends great changes.

Peterson Toscano

Among Friends

Falling for Friendly Fiction

Introduction to our November issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Bread of Life

Preserving the smudges of a life in a church cookbook.

Vicki Winslow

Features

The Religious Society of Pirates

Quaker resistance in a not-so-future world where privacy doesn’t exist.

Joy Weimer

Features

Hel

Two mysterious strangers play the long game on a shattered world.

Giles Tineold

Features

Edward Hicks and the Falls of the Niagara

The interior crisis of a landscape painter.

Benjamin Goluboff and Mark Luebbers

Features

Broomstick

A colonial Quaker witch trial.

Jean Martin

Features

Deep Enough for a Lifetime of Exploration

Conversations with Quaker creative writers.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

Prisoners of War

With dashes and squeals, two baby boars, / tan with white stripes, flank the lean soldier,

Karen Kilcup

Poetry

If You Said She Wore Her Heart on Her Sleeve

You could say that she was the sleeve, / she was the entire shirt, and she would give it

Morrow Dowdle

Poetry

Hal the Neighbor

Workers come to repair exterior steps, / siding, walkways, or deliver topsoil and mulch

Stephen R. Clark

Forum

Forum, November 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Faith and Practice

Faith, Redemptive Grace, and Quaker Meeting for Worship

Redemption is more lifelong than the sanctifying grace of a single covered meeting, but the grace we experience in meeting is a glimpse of that redemption.

John Hickey

Bible Study

Would That All the Lord’s People Were Prophets

Introducing “Bible Study”: a new department category that invites Friends to reflect on Bible passages that have inspired or challenged them

Ron Hogan

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…