Talking to Trees

On the grounds of the public school, there grows a young white pine tree. But it is not rooted in the ground; rather it springs from the fork in an old sugar maple.

Neal Burdick

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2024

The Fruits of our relationship with God.

Staff

News

New Initiative Supports Quaker Public Ministers

Public Friends is a new program to develop and support Quaker public ministers in North America and around the world.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Witness

A Call to Homeland Return

A leading forms for two Friends inspired by the Nisenan Tribe's efforts to regain their homeland, which is presently owned by a Quaker center in Nevada City, Calif.

Hans Brinker and Nancy Wood

News

Quakers around the World Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Founder George Fox’s Birth

A roundup of some events Friends have organized recently.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Who Do We Say We Are?

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Session Zero

Dungeons & Dragons in the Quaker community.

Michael Huber

Features

Silent Steadfastness

Returning to the faith of my ancestors.

Cheryl Weaver

Features

Pathways to Nature, Pathways to Spirit

Noticing when nature shows up in our spiritual lives.

Melissa Breed-Parks

Features

You Are Our Brothers

The Lenape People, Quakers, and peace in the seventeenth century.

Jean R. Soderlund

Features

White Supremacy Culture in My Clerking

Learning to respond to racial and power conflicts in a Friends school business meeting.

Michael Levi

Features

Let Your Schools Speak

The power of prefigurative practice in Friends education.

Sam Thacker

Poetry

Sojourn

I am and am not Presbyterian, Unitarian, Quaker . . .

Tammy Forner

Poetry

Driftless

They have discovered / the wreck of Amelia Earhart’s Electra, . . .

John Minczeski

Poetry

Offer

Duct tape the lenses, put your glasses on. / Rope boat to boat beside a splintered bridge.

Kristin Camitta Zimet

Forum

Forum, August 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

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…