Forum, September 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

FJ Spotlight

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Life in the Meeting

Baking Bread Together

A Synagogue and a Meeting share a mission for peace.

Neal Burdick

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2025

The Quaker approach to the Bible.

Staff

Jim Fussell on Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement banner

Quaker Talk

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 Talk

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

Riki Panganiban on What Can We Say?

Thank you for sharing this. A very useful summation of our Quaker approach to the divine…
Ingrid Rogers on Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026]

A wonderful news update!
Forrest Curo on What Can We Say?

It seems to me a commonplace observation that when any person begins to experience communication/communion with…
Neal Burdick on Hoopes Begins 30-Month Prison Sentence at Minimum-Security Camp in Oregon [Updated]

Let me get this straight: Quaker-affiliated Jacob Hoopes has been sentenced to 30 months in prison…