Writing Opp: Relationships

We are accepting submissions for our September issue. The due date is June 17, 2024.

Martin Kelley

Finding Peace after Trauma

A seeker finds release from fear and pain in Friends worship.

Bringing Our Guilt to the Light

Acknowledging the harms we have inflicted.

War, Debt, Grief, and Restorative Justice

Reconciliation and forgiveness around the world.

Forgiveness

Listen for the story / of her life as it enters, / drifts of smoke in still air.

Talon

Bobcat looks back / Her tendons steam / Eyes question compulsion to pounce

Forgiveness

It mists up from the lakes, rivers, and oceans / like Rilke’s “Solitude,” stealing over us softly—

Forum, January 2024

Letters from our readers.

Uncrossing the Wires

We need to discern where Spirit is calling us now and get rid of anything that is getting in the way.

Quakerly Gadflies

Most definitions of the word gadfly make people like me sound like pests, but that’s not how I see it.

QuakerSpeak, January 2024

“Most Quakers still don’t know our history as participants in this enterprise of forced assimilation of Native people,” Paula Palmer…

Our Top Five Articles for 2023

Let's look at this year's most widely read features.

Writing Opp: Membership

We are accepting articles for our May 2024 issue. The due date is Feb. 19, 2024.

Tendered Hearts

A simple message at Christmastime.

Quaker Author’s Talk on Israel–Palestine Leads to Interfaith Dialogue

Quaker author Steve Chase offered a talk about nonviolence and a just peace in Israel–Palestine.

Quakers Observe Transgender Day of Remembrance

The annual Transgender Day of Remembrance takes place every year on November 20.

Quakers Nationwide Continue Efforts to Protect Elections

Quakers nationwide have joined Quaker Call to Action to respond to threats to democracy in the United States.

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