It Must Have Been

Pilgrimage It must have been those long walks down country lanes, / daisies and black-eyed Susans separating dirt path from farmland, / your small hand reaching up and held in your mother’s loving grip

Charles Thomas

Forum

Forum, April 2023

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

Baking Cookies for the Revolution

I used to carry around in my wallet a little picture of Vedran Smailović.

Kat Griffith

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, April 2023

What to expect at a Quaker memorial service.

Rebecca Hamilton-Levi

News

Woodbrooke Study Centre to Close; Online Learning to Continue

Citing financial straits, the trustees of Woodbrooke have decided to cease holding classes at the Woodbrooke Centre estate in Birmingham, UK.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

The Changing Nature of Isolation in Quakerism Today

Introduction to our March issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Nothing Can Separate Us from the Light

How isolated are we?

Linda Seger

Features

Screen-Weary and Lonely

A case for plain, tech-free worship.

Helen Berkeley

Features

I Am Always Seeking

One Friend’s experience as an isolated Quaker.

William Kiel

Features

Zoom Spells Doom and Gloom

The false promise of virtual meetings.

Anita Bushell

Features

We Listen as God Listens

Cultivating sacred space online.

Ann Jerome

Features

Mixed Blessings

A Friends Journal report on virtual meetings.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

Prayer

"Instead of hush / I wander looking / for the door."

Karen Greenler

Poetry

A Kinder Solitude

"After a year of living alone / I have come to know me."

Fred Gerhard

Poetry

March invited me outside today / To join her festival / Of dancing tree tops

March stays for thirty-one days / and yet I barely know her, / a bridge between February and April / to be crossed despite the weather.

Edith Silvestri

Forum

Forum, March 2023

Letters from our readers

Staff

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…