Affirming the Heart of Climate Advocacy

Students find their voice lobbying for climate policy in the halls of Congress. With podcast and author chat.

Jose Aguto and Emily Wirzba

Features

Taking Heart

What climate activists can learn from the movement to abolish slavery. With author chat.

Marcia Cleveland

The Lamb’s War and Climate Change

An early Quaker metaphor can help us have hope for a future that looks bleak.

Will Taber

Friends in Business

Confessions of a Tired Accountant

Friends in Business

Daniel O’Keefe

Among Friends: When Simplicity Isn’t a Sacrifice

Introduction to the issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Forum December 2014

Letters from our readers.

Staff

The crying need for Quaker saints

December 2014 Viewpoint

John Pitts Corry

Features

Choice Poverty

A family changed by war finds richness in chosen poverty.

Seres Kyrie

Features

Sustainable Simplification Shuns “Shoulds” and Sacrifice

Rejecting the trappings of power to take cues from Jesus's life choices.

Chuck Hosking

Features

Quaker Oaks

What's with Quakers and their trees?

Jack H. Schick

Poetry

A Lonely Tree

FJ Poetry: In the middle of a field of high yield corns…

Gerald Bosacker

Poetry

Taking Down the Tree

FJ Poetry: They’re taking down the tree today…

Amy Neill Bebergal

Poetry

A Prayer for the Coming of the Light

FJ Poetry: The snow is melting, the air is crisp…

Lucy Duncan

Features

Sleeping with Margaret Fell: A Pilgrimage to 1652 Quaker Country

A pilgrimage to the "1652 Country" retraces the footsteps of early Quaker women.

Maggie O’Neill

Features

Mark’s Friendly Voice

Finding a human Jesus and strong women in the Gospel of Mark.

William H. Mueller

Celebration

Friends House Turns 30

A Quaker retirement community turns 30

Betsy Forman Harrell

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…