Peacemakers in Training

Quaker conflict resolution in K–12 schools.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

A Few Words from a Young Friend

Remaining Quaker for however long the Light wants.

Blaise Rzeszut

Online Features

Living Your Call

A Vocational Discernment Project for Young Adult Friends.

Greg Woods and Jennifer Newman

Online Features

Career Guidance for Friends in Their Twenties

Friends determine their next steps on life’s path based on leadings of the Spirit as well as communal and personal insights.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

Name Change

For nearly twenty years I’ve been a member / of the “Men’s Spiritual Nurture Group”

Howard Nelson

Poetry

Tuning Up

A staccato jackhammer, / rattle of a loose windowpane, / a frisking wail of wind.

Richard Schiffman

Poetry

Wednesday Evenings

A gaggle of barefoot pilgrims / hungry to hush minds’ chatter / tiptoe upstairs, settle

Karen Luke Jackson

Forum

Forum, September 2023

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Life in the Meeting

An Experiment in Sharing about Quaker Worship

This is a story about how the members of the Worship and Ministry Committee of Central Philadelphia Meeting experimented with a new way of helping Friends and attenders better understand Quaker worship.

Bruce Birchard

Online Features

Welcomed as We Are

Encounters with Young Friends in Belize

Nikki Holland

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2023

Coming Out to Myself

Christopher Cuthrell

News

Quakers Support LGBTQ Ugandans Following Passage of Anti-Homosexuality Law

Some Quakers in the United States and Uganda are supporting the rights of the African nation’s LGBTQ community who face…

Sharlee DiMenichi

Reflection

The Gathering That Is Becoming

Over 540 Friends came to Monmouth, Ore., for the first all-ages, in-person Friends General Conference Gathering in four years.

Liz Dykes

Among Friends

To Be Seen and Loved

Introduction to our August issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Hitchhiking as a Spiritual Discipline

An open road readies a seeker for saying yes to God.

Kat Griffith

Features

She Told Me Save the Flower

An incarcerated Quaker artist’s feminist awakening.

Judy Meikle

Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…
Stephen on Lynette Love: Education and Empowerment in Post-Civil War America

What a powerful feature on Lynette Love! Your conversation in the Friends Journal shines a necessary…
Eve Gutwirtth on A People Who Dwell in the Living Stream

Silence is a sublime state that we westeners find difficult to achieve but I did a…