Welcome and Grace

How one meeting ministers to military personnel.

Michelle Downey

Coming Out from Under Our Bushel

Becoming Publishers of Truth again.

The Revival of Defiance and the Call to Repair

A prophetic challenge for Quakers.

God Keeps Calling Us to Grow

An interview with Paul Buckley, author of Primitive Quakerism Revived.

Dandelion Boy

The history tour ends / in the cemetery filled with headstones,

First Meditation 

Lands, oceans of light open / the night where I learn to swim

Knees

As children, we knelt to pray. Joints, cartilage, / bones, though new, though barely tested,

Forum, June-July 2025

Letters from our readers.

Breaking the Silence

What my cardiac arrest during meeting for worship taught me.

The Gift of Presence Is Enough

Building the beloved community invites all of us to be available and present for each other.

Love Your Neighbor Is a Call to Action

Jesus said we will know his true followers by their fruit.

QuakerSpeak, June-July 2025

From Roman Catholic to Quaker.

Quakers Walk from New York City to Washington, D.C., to Share Flushing Remonstrance with Congress [Updated]

The walk advocating free speech and due process reached Washington on May 22.

Quaker Coalition Offers Antiracist Clerking Advices

The coalition offers “Anti-racist Clerking Advices for Friends” to help clerks center Friends who are typically marginalized in North American Quaker spaces.

Honoring God with Our Substance

Introduction to our May issue.

The Coldest Night at the Overflow Shelter

Lessons in love and resilience from the shelter.

I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me In

A small meeting’s experiment in radical welcoming.

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