Violence and Light

Halloween Night, 2007: Detroit It is Halloween, and we are at the Detroit Zoo. I am walking past brightly painted…

Lisa Sinnett

Be Still and Cool: Quakerism and the Passionate Life

Summer solstice. Miles above the Arctic Circle, on the calm Norwegian Sea, I leaned over the ship’s rail. Sunlight flared…

Heidi Hart

I have come early to Friends meeting this morning. I sit alone in a room that is sparse and welcoming,…

Nathanie Mahlberg

In the Gospel of Matthew, in the record of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches his disciples, saying, "Blessed…

Emma M. Churchman

What does it mean to be called to public ministry within the Religious Society of Friends? What does it mean…

Debbie Humphries

Sally Campbell

Phyllis Berentsen

I never open an issue of the Journal without feeling a deep sense of gratitude to the many, many individuals…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

“You would make a wonderful nun." Katherine said this to me with a grin, and I acted insulted because I…

Lisa Marie Rand

In May 2008, Quaker Universalist Fellowship turned 25 years old. Many Friends would argue that what we usually call Quaker…

Rhoda R. Gilman

Driving down Philadelphia’s South Street a few years ago, I was asked by a person who had pulled up next…

Max Carter

I think we as Quakers spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing peacemaking, but when it comes to…

Lynn Fitz-Hugh

Friends are advised to minister to those in need but also to seek to know the facts and the causes…

Steve Chase

It was only later that we realized how lucky we had been when we arrived in the United States to…

Louise Milbourn

I don’t know if it was because the season had been unusually wet, or if it was just the time…

Lynn Martin

It is ironic that most of us who benefit from a Quaker education are not Quaker. As a middle school…

Michael Zimmerman

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…