A Membership That Is Ever Flowing

Introduction to our May issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Where the Light Comes to Meet Us

Walls do not define our belonging.

Leticia Garcia Tiwari

Features

The Light Will Be Shining at the End of It All

When membership and convincement diverge.

Matt Rosen

Features

Membership at a Distance

Lessons from joining a meeting 400 miles from home.

Dirk von der Horst

Features

Speaking to Our Members’ Conditions

Giving us back to ourselves.

Steven Dale Davison

Features

A Family of Friends?

Taking welcome to a deeper level.

Rhiannon Grant

Features

Friends Seeking Non-Traditional Membership

A Friends Journal report.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

For Hildegard

Her twelfth season tending / to my garden, she turns the soil

Joan Mazza

Poetry

Oranges

When my smell came back, I caught / a whiff of lapsang souchong steeping

John Minczeski

Poetry

Garden Fires

In May I pulled away winter’s weeds, / spread manure, and fastened new

Elaine Reardon

Forum

Forum, May 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

May 2024 Book Reviews

Young Friends Bookshelf

Eileen Redden

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2024

Jewish Quaker on pacifism.

Christopher Cuthrell

News

339 Manumissions and Beyond Partners with Howard University

Collaboration expands research into the lives of those enslaved by Quakers.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Quaker Council for European Affairs

Based in Quaker House in Brussels, Belgium, Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) nurtures the hope for a more peaceful…

Quaker Works

Among Friends

Resonant Lessons from Nature, Scripture, and Experience

Introduction to our April issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Liz Oppenheimer on Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

I appreciated the article about Friends’ responses to Operation Metro Surge. There were of course other…
George Busolo Lukalo on Making My Life a Testimony

So amazing being a Quaker. More to learn and live as a Quaker is my desire….
John Newkirk on The Journey Back to God

First I am sorry for your loss and I would just like to say addiction is…
Nate on The Journey Back to God

Robin, that is a strong story, and I’m so glad you’re still here in the land…