On Being a Quaker Filmmaker

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

Martin Krafft

Poetry

Black and White

"every morning I slip robes onto outstretched arms…"

Cai Quirk

Poetry

Fall Made

"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…"

Matt Rosen

Forum

Forum, September 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2022

God and Creativity

Staff

News

Fire destroys Lindi Friends School in Nairobi, Kenya

On the evening of Sunday, July 24, a fire destroyed Lindi Friends School, run by Nairobi Yearly Meeting, in the…

FJ News Editors

News

Historic peace activism sailboat Golden Rule to make another voyage

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

FJ News Editors

Poetry

Breathing

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

Christine Hall Stinson

Viewpoint

Quakers Must Take a Position on Abortion

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

Erick Williams

Poetry

Birthing Still

"Having not given birth to a child, / I have not held the echo of my husband’s smile…"

Sandra K. Olson

Among Friends

Wrestling with the Peace Testimony

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Do Friends Still Need the Peace Testimony?

Reclaiming the gospel power of the 1660 Declaration.

Adria Gulizia

Features

Rejecting the False Reality

A Recommitment to the Peace Testimony.

Patience A. Schenck

Features

Let Your Life Speak by Your Actions

David Lester on Illustrating Benjamin Lay’s Story.

John Malkin

Features

Loyalty and War

A Vet Confronts a Peace Activist.

George R. Lakey

Poetry

Labyrinth

"Take these rocks you’ve carried from forever / The ones that make your shoulders ache and tense…"

Melissa Foster

Liz Oppenheimer on Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

I appreciated the article about Friends’ responses to Operation Metro Surge. There were of course other…
George Busolo Lukalo on Making My Life a Testimony

So amazing being a Quaker. More to learn and live as a Quaker is my desire….
John Newkirk on The Journey Back to God

First I am sorry for your loss and I would just like to say addiction is…
Nate on The Journey Back to God

Robin, that is a strong story, and I’m so glad you’re still here in the land…