Relationships in the Quaker Community

Unusual connection and the joy of helping.

Donald W. McCormick

Features

Growing into Our Perfect Selves

Experiences of Quaker eldering.

Mary Linda McKinney

Features

The Messy Business of Relationships

Tending the permeable membrane.

Pamela Haines

Features

We Live Worship

Spiritual nurturing in Quaker intentional communities.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

A Perilous Quaker Marriage Proposal

On the day I proposed I first sat in silence / hoping words would rise from the garden paths

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Walking Flowers Home

The roadsides where I took my walk were solid, / almost, in September flowers, mustard-colored / sprays, purple spikes, and, mostly, in penumbrae

Donald Mace Williams

Poetry

A September Breakfast in the Piedmont

A grasshopper sat on my toaster today, / Looking puzzled yet nonchalant.

Paul Murphy

Forum

Forum, September 2024

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Talking to Trees

On the grounds of the public school, there grows a young white pine tree. But it is not rooted in the ground; rather it springs from the fork in an old sugar maple.

Neal Burdick

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2024

The Fruits of our relationship with God.

Staff

News

New Initiative Supports Quaker Public Ministers

Public Friends is a new program to develop and support Quaker public ministers in North America and around the world.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Witness

A Call to Homeland Return

A leading forms for two Friends inspired by the Nisenan Tribe's efforts to regain their homeland, which is presently owned by a Quaker center in Nevada City, Calif.

Hans Brinker and Nancy Wood

News

Quakers around the World Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Founder George Fox’s Birth

A roundup of some events Friends have organized recently.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Who Do We Say We Are?

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Session Zero

Dungeons & Dragons in the Quaker community.

Michael Huber

Features

Silent Steadfastness

Returning to the faith of my ancestors.

Cheryl Weaver

Riki Panganiban on What Can We Say?

Thank you for sharing this. A very useful summation of our Quaker approach to the divine…
Ingrid Rogers on Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026]

A wonderful news update!
Forrest Curo on What Can We Say?

It seems to me a commonplace observation that when any person begins to experience communication/communion with…
Neal Burdick on Hoopes Begins 30-Month Prison Sentence at Minimum-Security Camp in Oregon [Updated]

Let me get this straight: Quaker-affiliated Jacob Hoopes has been sentenced to 30 months in prison…