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.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Honoring God with Our Substance

Introduction to our May issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me In

A small meeting’s experiment in radical welcoming.

Greenleaf Weekly Outdoor Meeting

Features

Laundry Chaplaincy for Unsheltered Souls

Ministering to the unhoused where they are.

Zae Illo

Features

Shalom and Right Relationship

Reflections on housing justice.

Chris Ferguson

Features

Solidarity with Our Unhoused Neighbors

Quaker ministries for the homeless.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

Monday Night in the Church Basement

frayed edges / of your bulging backpack / remind me that the perimeter

Patricia Joslin

Poetry

Dogs on the Run

I hear my husband singing “Dogs on the Run,” / to the tune of “Band on the Run,” out in the kitchen

Joyce Victor

Poetry

I Play Nostalgic Songs

I’m like Billy Joel, / playing nostalgic songs / that everyone knows— / I’m in a wheelchair

Mark Tulin

Forum

Forum, May 2025

Letters from our readers

Staff

Viewpoint

Zen Faith

Understanding Quaker continuing revelation and freedom from dogma.

John Hickey

Interview

Helping Our Neighbors with Housing

An interview with Neil Trueblood on Gwynedd Meeting’s Avalon House.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Bible Study

I Would Give You Living Water

New for 2025, the Bible Study department runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues.

Jerry McBride

Film Review

The Joyful Rebellion of George Lakey

A review of "Citizen George"

Gail Whiffen

News

British Quakers condemn police raid at London meetinghouse, call for reform to protect right to protest

The following story was adapted from news reports posted on the Quakers in Britain website. Follow the latest updates on…

Staff

Georgia Stadler on One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

Thank you. Reading about this man’s struggle pulled me out of me own darkness. Somehow it…
Lynda Rees Kling on One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

Nixon should have been read out of “ his” Meeting.. he was a complete disgrace and…
Robert William Dixon-Kolar on Zen Faith

I appreciated reading John Hickey’s reflections in “Zen Faith.” My experience of Quaker worship informs my…
Pamela Salela on Laundry Chaplaincy for Unsheltered Souls

While not a part of our local Quaker Workshop Group, we do have a couple who…