Abraham

Not every child you choose chooses you back. / But I heard only what I longed to hear. Sons.

Kristin Camitta Zimet

Forum

Forum, February 2024

Letters from our readers

Staff

Reflection

Revelation in the Woods

Live in unity with the Creation—the embodiment of the Creator.

Carol Shearon

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, February 2024

Where We Touch God

Christopher Cuthrell

News

Friends Committee on National Legislation Approves Policy on Abortion

FCNL approved a policy on abortion and other reproductive issues at its November 2023 annual meeting.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Finding Peace with Ourselves, Family, and Neighbors

Introduction to our January issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

To Err Is Human; To Forgive Is Human Too

How do we seek forgiveness and give forgiveness to others?

John Andrew Gallery

Features

A Prayer of Blessing and Forgiveness

Reconciling with my deceased mother.

Welling Hall

Features

Finding Peace after Trauma

A seeker finds release from fear and pain in Friends worship.

Albert Bellg

Features

Bringing Our Guilt to the Light

Acknowledging the harms we have inflicted.

Lindsay-Rose Dunstan

Features

War, Debt, Grief, and Restorative Justice

Reconciliation and forgiveness around the world.

Pamela Haines

Poetry

Forgiveness

Listen for the story / of her life as it enters, / drifts of smoke in still air.

M.S. Rooney

Poetry

Talon

Bobcat looks back / Her tendons steam / Eyes question compulsion to pounce

Marjorie Gowdy

Poetry

Forgiveness

It mists up from the lakes, rivers, and oceans / like Rilke’s “Solitude,” stealing over us softly—

Molly Lynde

Forum

Forum, January 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Life in the Meeting

Uncrossing the Wires

We need to discern where Spirit is calling us now and get rid of anything that is getting in the way.

Ashley M. Wilcox

Gene T. on Recovering from the Shame of Combat

This is really an extremely important and profound issue. I’m not sure I have the right…
Gerard Guiton on We Are Having an Effect

While I admire, and learn from, Greg Rolles’ activism, I am moved to comment on his…
Philip Fitz on A Union Unlike Any Other

One milestone in the process of acceptance of same-sex marriage was not in the article. Goshen…
Tom Smith on A Union Unlike Any Other

In 1999, Portland Friends School was established. It was a culmination of a committee made up…