The Gift of Queries

A mentor’s encouragement.

Debbie Humphries

Reparations and Transgenerational Healing

A White Quaker’s Path

Beyond Abolition

Elias Hicks’s five points of true restorative racial justice.

Our Quaker Ancestors Owned Slaves

A search through one family’s genealogy.

When You Know Better, You Do Better

Wrestling with America’s racist past.

Confronting the Legacy of Quaker Slavery

Inside the 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project.

Hog Maw Epiphanies

“Mama and Daddy were farmers in Tennessee,” my friend shared…

How Friends Can Make Reparations for Quaker-Run Indigenous Boarding Schools

Friends across the country are reckoning with historic Quaker involvement in Native American boarding schools.

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…."

Note to Myself

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

when it comes

"it comes a gentle / but insistent pressure…"

Forum, January 2022

Letter from our readers.

Unbundled

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

QuakerSpeak, January 2023

What to expect at a hybrid Quaker Meeting for Worship.

At One with God and Friends

Our introduction to the December issue on “Atonement.”

Facing Evil, Finding Freedom

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

Repentance, Forgiveness, Atonement

An interview with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.

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