What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

Peterson Toscano

A Matter of Grace

Mary Cadbury Remembers 40 Years of Prison Worship

Reinvesting in Justice

How Maryland Quakers Challenged Mass Incarceration

Get Thee Behind the Walls

Mutual Spiritual Accompaniment Inside and Outside Prison

Prison as Exile

Finding Mercy While Serving Life without Parole

Too Much Justice, Too Much Mercy

An Interview with Jim Moreno

We Have Much Left to Do

Thoughts on Post-Civil War, Post-Civil Rights, Post-George Floyd American Justice

When Peace Requires Police

Applying the Friends peace testimony to police reform.

Talking with Paroled People about Money

The best prison programs offer academic classes, but the experience of talking with ordinary people about ordinary life is necessarily missing.

More than the Worst Thing They’ve Ever Done

An Extended Interview with Jim Moreno

A Way

"Some saints point with wooden spoons, and pray with brooms…"

Benediction, Eastern Correctional

"Seated in a circle in the small room allowed us, the men wear their prison greens, like gas station attendants…"

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Forum, September 2021

Letters from our readers.

An Insufficient and Impromptu View

Is there such a thing as a “good” police force or prison?

QuakerSpeak, September 2021

Being an open transgender minister, especially in smaller communities, is not an easy thing to do.

Mourning What We Missed, Keeping What We Gained

Introduction to our August issue.

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