QuakerSpeak, October 2025

Understanding the Peace Testimony.

Staff

After Three Decades, Friends Lay Down Journal Chronicling Mystical Experience

The volunteer staff of What Canst Thou Say? have decided to lay the publication down.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Finding Direction and Comfort

Introduction to our September issue.

Martin Kelley

Shining Our Light Before Others

A Quaker’s thoughts on the new American papacy.

Evan Welkin

We the People Have No King

Five ways Friends can preserve democracy.

Anthony Manousos

We Are Having an Effect

The necessity of spiritual resistance in climate and justice activism.

Greg Rolles

I Ain’t Marching Anymore

A Vietnam War resister’s journey of conscience.

Ronald Marullo

Recovering from the Shame of Combat

The power of narrative to heal.

Edward W. Wood Jr.

Seeing Light in Everyone

Encounters between Quakers and incarcerated people.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Do, re, mi

Sitting quietly in Quaker Meeting, it occurred to me / that honesty is one of the luxuries

Charles Weld

Song before Sleep

The broad-tailed hummers / sing high in the piñon.

Wayne Lee

September 29

Every year on September 29 / they gather.

Nancy Thomas

Forum, September 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Life in the Meeting

Baking Bread Together

A Synagogue and a Meeting share a mission for peace.

Neal Burdick

QuakerSpeak, September 2025

The Quaker approach to the Bible.

Staff

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Eye-Opening Lessons from Living In a Quaker Intentional Community

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