''What are Friends Called to Today?

Go deep. Go deep, dear Friends. Touch the bedrock. Find the Source from which springs your own true, deep calling.…

Patricia McBee

The Temptation to Do Something: A Quietist Perspective

Many people think that Quietists were people who liked quiet, and that the Quietist period in Quaker history was so…

Paul Buckley

Conversations from the Heartland

A few years ago, I surprised myself and some friends—I sent out an e-mail to my homeschooling buddies, almost entirely…

Kat Griffith

Friendly Vocations

What does it mean to live vocationally? Living out of a sense of calling is radically different from other motivations.…

Paul Anderson

Friends: A Broken, Tender People?

To be led by God is to be free of the hold of fear. Fear may or may not be…

Marge Abbott

A Convergence of Friends

This spring I hosted an unusual dinner party: nine Quakers from Ohio, Oregon, and California, gathered for fellowship, dialogue, and…

Robin Mohr

The World Is Hungry for What We’ve Tasted

Friends today are called to the same radical work that has always driven us: to step back from the world…

Martin Kelley

Deep, Tall, and Wide

I’ve just arrived at the old stone house next to Amish fields where I spend the summers writing. One of…

Marcelle Martin

The Need for Radical Acceptance

I’m a 26-year-old African American Quaker. There are parts of my life that seem typical to the lives of young…

Tai Amri Spann-Wilson

Living Our Convictions

Faithfulness The first call is to God, to faithfulness. Out of faithfulness rises the call to live in peace. In…

Nadine Hoover

The Prophetic Journey

In a time of perpetual war and violence, unprecedented greed, and environmental devastation, the Religious Society of Friends, with some…

Christina Repoley

''Walking Cheerfully … with a Vision in Our Pockets

Is it just me, or are others running into more cynical, escapist, or despairing people these days? My Christian conservative…

George R. Lakey

Finding the Way Forward

What are Friends called to today? The answer is simple. Today, we have the same calling that Friends have had…

Joe Volk

Moral Consequences of Militant Foreign Policy

From September 12, 2001, when Friends Committee on National Legislation raised its banner, "War Is Not the Answer," until today,…

Nancy Milio

State of Society Reports 2005

During 2005, described in one report as a year "filled with growth and challenge," Friends experienced spiritual renewal and strengthened…

Robert Marks

Choosing Differently

We’re nearing the end of a blistering summer that has witnessed many days where the temperature has been over 100…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

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…