Toward a Quaker Pedagogy

A grad returning to teach reflects on the purpose of Friends schools.

Jack Tripp

Is All Our Work the Peace Testimony?

Reflecting on the inward seeking and the outward practices.

Climate War in a Peaceful Africa

Wars fought without guns or missiles.

The Unfinished Peace Testimony in East Africa

A challenge both spiritual and practical.

Hello, Sun

With the Quakers, I sit outside the meeting room, under the giant redwood trees.

Consolation

On a loose stone atop the bluestone wall / by the gate, this lichen’s a rough oval . . .

Hospice Bed Tales

If hospice beds could speak / We’d hear not much of ways to die / But of ways to live

Forum, September 2026

Letters from our readers.

No Clean Hands

Discerning a personal ethics of economics.

Teaching Peace, Justice, and Equality in Early Childhood Classrooms

One meeting's collaboration with local schools.

Grounded Presence, Sinking Deep

A testimony of a leading to eldership.

QuakerSpeak, September 2026

ICE tried to silence them—these Quaker women fought back.

Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed Judge Chuang’s ruling in an appeal filed by DHS.

Open Worship, Guided Worship, Fluid Worship: A Talk with John Helding

A Quaker author talk. John Helding’s “How Can I Keep from Singing” appears in the August edition of Friends Journal.…

The Noises of Our Silences

Introduction to our August issue.

How Can I Keep from Singing?

The marvelous mystery of worship-fluid meetings.

Experiments in Silent Worship

Reflections in three movements.

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