In my first years as a Quaker, my theater life stood in uncomfortable tension side-by-side with my faith.

Robert Valiente-Neighbours is a Quaker artist fascinated with the tensions of movement and stillness.

“Truth seems really important to you.” These words, spoken by my graduate school professor, have stuck with me.

It was the acute phase of the early pandemic, and many of us were longing for connection, community, and a way through.

My journeys as a lifelong Quaker, artist, and gender-diverse person are inextricably linked.

Creativity is love is joy is God. In any human’s life, there are myriad opportunities for us to experience bounteous, joyous, creative moments.

"I smear my skin / with schisms of the songs I heard at night, / tales of a God who couldn’t bear / to make the unexpressed…"

Letters from our readers.

God and Creativity

From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands displacing Indigenous inhabitants and spreading…

"God and I play a game. / She blows air into me. / I blow it back at her…"

Friends’ posture of silence in the matter of abortion must change.