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

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

Who Do We Say We Are?

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Session Zero

Dungeons & Dragons in the Quaker community.

Michael Huber

Silent Steadfastness

Returning to the faith of my ancestors.

Cheryl Weaver

Pathways to Nature, Pathways to Spirit

Noticing when nature shows up in our spiritual lives.

Melissa Breed-Parks

You Are Our Brothers

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

Jean R. Soderlund

White Supremacy Culture in My Clerking

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

Michael Levi

Let Your Schools Speak

The power of prefigurative practice in Friends education.

Sam Thacker

Sojourn

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

Tammy Forner

Driftless

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

John Minczeski

Offer

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

Kristin Camitta Zimet

Forum, August 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

What Does Love Require of Us Now?

The Compassionate Heart of Everlasting Love needs every one of us.

Shulamith Clearbridge

QuakerSpeak, August 2024

Reducing violence from within.

Staff

Quakers March to Urge Vanguard to Divest from Fossil Fuels

On July 3, EQAT organized a rally, march, and prayer vigil calling on Vanguard Group to divest from all fossil fuel company holdings.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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