A Family of Friends?

Taking welcome to a deeper level.

Rhiannon Grant

Features

Friends Seeking Non-Traditional Membership

A Friends Journal report.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

For Hildegard

Her twelfth season tending / to my garden, she turns the soil

Joan Mazza

Poetry

Garden Fires

In May I pulled away winter’s weeds, / spread manure, and fastened new

Elaine Reardon

Poetry

Oranges

When my smell came back, I caught / a whiff of lapsang souchong steeping

John Minczeski

Forum

Forum, May 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

May 2024 Book Reviews

Young Friends Bookshelf

Eileen Redden

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2024

Jewish Quaker on pacifism.

Christopher Cuthrell

News

339 Manumissions and Beyond Partners with Howard University

Collaboration expands research into the lives of those enslaved by Quakers.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Quaker Council for European Affairs

Based in Quaker House in Brussels, Belgium, Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) nurtures the hope for a more peaceful…

Quaker Works

Among Friends

Resonant Lessons from Nature, Scripture, and Experience

Introduction to our April issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

A Quaker Guide to Birdwatching

Eight lessons for Friends and seekers.

Rebecca Heider

Features

My Dad’s Green Burial

How a family chose a meaningful resting place.

Christine Ashley

Features

The Gospel Model of Fatherly Love

A Friend looks to the New Testament and poems of Kahlil Gibran to understand parenthood.

John Andrew Gallery

Features

Planting Ourselves in Time and Place

An expanded vision of conscientious objection.

J. E. McNeil

Features

Quakers Partner to Aid Survivors of Sexual Violence in Uganda

A profile of Bulungi Tree Shade Meeting and its U.S. supporters.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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…