A Quaker at Ground Zero

The Family Assistance Center (FAC) described below was located in a historic railroad terminal/museum at Liberty State Park in Jersey…

John Blum

Reclaiming Baptism

Nothing becomes a cliché faster than the truth. An insightful or witty person will find a new turn of phrase…

Paul Buckley

Ruach, Chutzpah, and Creativity

Quaker women’s retreats can be fertile ground for new insights, friendships, and spiritual inspiration. However, the real reasons that I…

Susan Hubbard

Benjamin Lundy, Pioneer Quaker Abolitionist

Benjamin Lundy, like many young men of his time restless and sketchily educated, longed for new places and experiences. The…

Suzanne R. Wicks

Rainbow Sign

Spring is a time of unpredictable and spectacular storms. Last spring, on my way to visit a friend, brilliant shafts…

Amy Carter Holloway Gomez

Quaker Service in Cape Town, South Africa

Quaker Service, Cape, in Cape Town, South Africa, has reinterpreted the ancient tradition of alms-giving in the modern developing world.…

Sarah Ruden

To Tell or Not to Tell

“What is this, some kind of parenting thing?" This, the response from my 35-year-old daughter when I informed her that…

Henry Stark

Clerking

My basic premise is that the disciplines of clerking a meeting for worship for business and facilitating a business meeting…

Mary McClure

Reconciling the Irreconcilable

I am deeply grateful to the staff of Friends Journal for doing another arts issue—the first since 1979—and for involving…

Esther Greenleaf Mürer

Vigilance is Necessary

For one of us, it was difficult to accept the Peace Testimony when first a member of the Religious Society…

Doris A, Ashley and Margrit Meyer

Art as Soul's Sanctuary: The Making of a Leading

The stuff of the world is there to be made into images that become for us tabernacles of spirituality and…

Jennifer Elam

An Interview with Chuck Fager

Chuck Fager is clerk of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA). He has recently been appointed director of…

Robert Dockhorn

Quakers' and Everyones' Need for the Arts

It is quite clear that Quakers need the fine arts. Efforts to make up for the slights that the arts…

Janet Mustin

Quakers on the Arts, 1658-1995

All ye poets, jesters, rhymers, makers of verses and ballads, who bend your wits to please novelties, light minds, who…

Esther Mürer

Reflections on the Life and Art of Asa Watkins

Asa Watkins died in June 2001 at age 84. After reflecting for some time on the news of his passing,…

Manuel Macarrulla

Music and the Spirit of Creativity

My musical saga began at the age of ten. I had heard and was moved by music all my life,…

Jim Dragoni

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…