The Divine Comes Disguised as Our Life.

"So often the path leads nowhere, backs up into brush, disappears, ends in a parking lot, butts into wire…."

Anne Maren-Hogan

Poetry

Note to Myself

"Do not expect the Silence to always be silent. / Life is taking place outside this Meeting House…"

Loré McLaren

Poetry

when it comes

"it comes a gentle / but insistent pressure…"

Morrow Dowdle

Forum

Forum, January 2022

Letter from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Unbundled

I fly from the frigid city of Minneapolis, Minn., to Presque Isle, Maine.

Kaylee Berg

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, January 2023

What to expect at a hybrid Quaker Meeting for Worship.

Staff

Among Friends

At One with God and Friends

Our introduction to the December issue on “Atonement.”

Martin Kelley

Features

Facing Evil, Finding Freedom

How Сhrist’s victory over sin is ours to share today.

Adria Gulizia

Features

Repentance, Forgiveness, Atonement

An interview with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.

Ron Hogan

Features

Early Friends and Atonement

Enlightened to serve a living God.

Doug Gwyn

Features

New Light on Atonement

No More Scapegoats.

Thomas Gates

Features

What Now?

A practical view of salvation.

Ann Birch

Online Features

A New Creation Where God Is All

The Vision of James Nayler.

Stuart Masters

Online Features

I Am the Gate

The Mystery of Experiential Atonement

Shelley Costa

Viewpoint

Quakers, Indian Boarding Schools, and Indigenous Justice Today

In 1819, the United States enacted a series of policies that led to the creation of Indian boarding schools across the nation.

Sandra Boone Murphy

Poetry

Half an Ear

There are those who listen with half an ear…

David Black

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