Circle Time

I loved it when we would sit down to have Circle Time. First we would light the candles so we…

Savannah Hauge

Together-Together: That’s How We Nurture Each Other

When I asked my 14-year-old daughter, "What is a functioning Quaker adult?" she looked at me quizzically and responded, "I…

Chris DeRoller

How Monthly Meetings Can Support Their Youth

I first came to meeting when I was five years old, with my parents and my stuffed frog. The frog…

Elizabeth Walmsley

”Building Multigenerational Community within Monthly Meetings

One of the most powerful moments of my spiritual journey when I was growing up came when the youth director…

Christie Duncan-Tessmer

Children, War, Play, Violence (and Barbies)

When I started out on the adventure of parenting, I assumed that I was too smart and enlightened to have…

Pamela Haines

Follow the Child

I am an introspective kind of Friend who considers every decision carefully. It takes me days to mull over a…

Ann Jerome Croce

Features

Why Young Friends Need Elders—and Why They Need Us

To be a Young Friend is to be in transition—to be in a time of great possibility, uncertainty, and formation.…

Micah Bales

Being a Friendly Adult Presence in the Lives of Young Friends: What Would Tom Fox Do?

My 15-year-old son Jonathan dragged his tired body in the door, trailing his sleeping bag and pillow, exhausted but with…

Peggy O'Neill

Young Friends Need More Substance

What I have appreciated most about Friends is the way they have welcomed me into their Religious Society, both in…

Zachary Hoyt

Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir

Hanna: The Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir was started during a now-annual First-day school fundraiser for a school in El…

Kickapoo Young Friends Choir

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker

You can raise a Quaker without First-day school, without lesson plans, even without figuring out "what every Quaker child needs…

Gail Eastwood

Friendly Partners Program

When our Quaker children become teenagers our meetings lose touch with them. They seem to disappear into the abyss of…

Elizabeth Claggett-Borne

Why High School Sucked and How Young Friends Saved My Life

Shortly after graduating from high school I read an article stating that the reason adolescents place so much emphasis on…

Jon Watts

Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be…

Adam Waxman

Forging the Ties that Bind: Supporting Quaker Youth

I have often wondered why I alone of my three siblings am still active in Quaker circles. We all attended…

Maia Carter Hallward

A Young Friend at the UN

Upon graduating from Beloit College last year, I began work at Quaker United Nations Office in New York as a…

Jill Terrell

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…