Welcome and Grace

How one meeting ministers to military personnel.

Michelle Downey

Letters from our readers.

Be Still and Cool

When we go inward and look toward the Eternal, we can find the Light of Truth, Hope, and Love in all persons and all creation.

Child Reading

December 2024 Book Reviews

Young Friends Bookshelf

What Can We Do Now?

Even when it seems hopeless, persistence often pays off—sometimes when least expected, and sometimes in surprising ways.

QuakerSpeak, December 2024

Benjamin Lay, Radical Quaker Abolitionist.

Quaker Initiative to End Torture Laid Down After Nearly 20 Years of Advocacy

Members of the Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT) laid down the group on July 15, after more than 19 years.

Olive Branch

Alien enemies provide a lesson in trust.

Monkey Mind

Life distractions intrude on the silent worship.

Good

A creator delights in creation.

Penn’s Spring

A mysterious damp patch on a wall in the meetinghouse portends great changes.

Falling for Friendly Fiction

Introduction to our November issue.

Bread of Life

Preserving the smudges of a life in a church cookbook.

The Religious Society of Pirates

Quaker resistance in a not-so-future world where privacy doesn’t exist.

Hel

Two mysterious strangers play the long game on a shattered world.

Edward Hicks and the Falls of the Niagara

The interior crisis of a landscape painter.

Broomstick

A colonial Quaker witch trial.

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