Knowing Experimentally

In "Christ-Centeredness and Quaker Identity" (FJ July), R. Scot Miller writes that his "fear is that Quakerism will be swallowed…

David Britton

A Family Responds to Suspicionless Drug Testing

he whole issue started in the spring of 2006 when I was a freshman in high school. The school district…

Gilbert Ambler

Witnessing to Integrity in an Untruthful World

I have to admit, when I think of the traditional Quaker testimonies, Integrity rarely tops the list. It is certainly…

Shelley E. Cochran

Language and Friends Witness

In our era of mass media, the world is not just "too much with us," as the poet William Wordsworth…

Harold Branam

A Sign in My Window

When my neighbor from across the street mentioned to me that members of the youth group from my church were…

Rick Artzner

Irony in Grade Four

My nine-year-old daughter’s two favorite words this school year have been "sarcastic" and "ironic." Sarcasm was fairly easy to master—after…

Jeanine M. Dell'Olio

Long-Distance Relationships, Or, The Message I Didn't Give in Chapel Hill

Mary introduced us by email. By the time we met in person, Nora and I had pleasantly corresponded by email…

Sean M. Crane

Pilgrim in a Barren Land

After midnight, even on an unseasonably mild November evening, the late-working staffers have gone home and the tourists are back…

Laurel Beckett

Two Quaker Families in Suchitoto

Suchitoto, a small Salvadoran town and municipality (similar to a U.S. county), was virtually emptied during a decade-long internal civil…

Robert Broz

Violence on the Playground: An Everyday Struggle

I am standing in the hallway after the students have left, towering over a six-year-old boy who is squeezing showy…

Hannah C. Logan Morris

Small Steps toward a More Peaceable Community

Friends have many opportunities each day to witness to our belief that there is that of God in everyone. The…

David Zarembka

Living Near the End of Life: Queries for the Elderly

Crosslands is one of a number of Quaker retirement communities in the Philadelphia area. In existence for over 30 years,…

Brigitte Alexander

Sitting Closer to the Front

I remember vividly the year I moved from my home near Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Jersey to start my career…

Peter Lang

Clerking: Better and Worse than I Imagined

For the last two years, I have had the good fortune to serve as clerk of our meeting. It was…

David E. Drake

Being Still

"Be still and know that I am God." Ps. 46:10 A few hundred yards off the Appalachian Trail in Maine…

Richard Eastman

Quaker Baptism

A few years ago I was sitting on the sofa in George and Theresa Walumoli’s living room listening to a…

David Zarembka

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…