Forgiveness, Trust, and Safety

A request represents a genuine moral dilemma.

Tammy Forner

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, March 2023

Secret to True Communication

Staff

Online Features

Quakers Turn to Mastodon Social Media

Some Quakers frustrated by scandal, commercialism, and negativity have left Twitter and Facebook and migrated to Mastodon.

Sharlee DiMenichi

News

Embattled AFSC Diversity Officer to Leave Organization

The diversity officer at American Friends Service Committee will leave her post and sever ties with the organization.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

A Quaker Experience at the Asbury Revival

This month a regularly scheduled chapel service at Asbury University in Kentucky turned into a nonstop continuing revival lasting two weeks.

Karla Jay

Online Features

Play Looks at British Quaker Reformers Ada and Alfred Salter

The performance culminated a year of special events in honor of the Salter centenary, which celebrated the couple’s life.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Finding Our Ways

Introduction to our February issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

The Divine GPS

Faithfully following a leading.

Mary Linda McKinney

Features

What We Can Say Now

Inviting Friends to tell their stories.

Mary Ann Downey

Features

Welcoming Temptation

A test of faith.

John Andrew Gallery

Features

Surviving Religious Trauma

How I left an abusive God.

Hayden Hobby

Features

Lent with the Episcopalians

A fresh introduction to Jesus.

Margaret Kelso

Features

From Atheist to Friends

Welcoming a questioning agnostic.

John Marsh

Poetry

Are We Old Yet?

"he asked me / and I couldn't answer him…"

Nancy Thomas

Poetry

To those who repair and paint

"To those who think over / a thought they think they shouldn't think— / I love you anyway, you are my people…"

Steven Ray Smith

Poetry

Longshore Transport

"Wind and wave, storm and claw / drag and scatter and break the beach…"

Gundega Korsts

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…