What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

Peterson Toscano

Collective Resilience

Introduction to our March issue.

COVID on Earth

Traveling the world by going absolutely nowhere.

Pandemic Bible Study

Loss brings an awareness of what’s important.

Do Not Forget to Wait

The consolation of the desert.

Meditating during the Pandemic

Rediscovering the richness of a daily spiritual practice.

Knowing That We Belong

Finding new ways to care for one another in a post-COVID world.

Coping with COVID at Olney Friends School

The expectant waiting of school life under lockdown.

Grounded in Matters of the Spirit

Schooling through the pandemic.

The Soularium

Cultivating Inner Peace and Kindness

Way Will Open

Way will open.As we learn to live with this pandemic.Our hearts broken.Our vulnerability exposed. Grief,   Anger,     Sadness, Me, myself and IWho am I?Within…

The Garden of COVID

In your garden, getting lostin lilac coneflowers, minglingwith the bees and hummers,your grin another bloom. I move out of the…

Distance from the Storm

Clean mask in hand, I stand and look across the yard.Warren works the garden, scratching down a dusty row.From a…

Three Poems

Test Results You’re negative.Are you sure?I’m positive. normalcy in chaos hearing her harping on all that’s changedsince this virus struckmakes me…

Forum, March 2021

Letters from our readers.

Stories from Arch Street

Volunteer guides and greeters from the Arch Street Meetinghouse share stories that have inspired and entertained them.

QuakerSpeak, March 2021

Have you seen the one of Tenaja Henson talking about how their Quaker faith influences their calling to do Spirit-led…

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