Welcome to Our Fifth Annual Fiction Issue

Introduction to our November issue.

Martin Kelley

Forum, June-July 2025

Letters from our readers.

Breaking the Silence

What my cardiac arrest during meeting for worship taught me.

The Gift of Presence Is Enough

Building the beloved community invites all of us to be available and present for each other.

Love Your Neighbor Is a Call to Action

Jesus said we will know his true followers by their fruit.

QuakerSpeak, June-July 2025

From Roman Catholic to Quaker.

Quakers Walk from New York City to Washington, D.C., to Share Flushing Remonstrance with Congress [Updated]

The walk advocating free speech and due process reached Washington on May 22.

Quaker Coalition Offers Antiracist Clerking Advices

The coalition offers “Anti-racist Clerking Advices for Friends” to help clerks center Friends who are typically marginalized in North American Quaker spaces.

Honoring God with Our Substance

Introduction to our May issue.

I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me In

A small meeting’s experiment in radical welcoming.

Laundry Chaplaincy for Unsheltered Souls

Ministering to the unhoused where they are.

Shalom and Right Relationship

Reflections on housing justice.

Solidarity with Our Unhoused Neighbors

Quaker ministries for the homeless.

Monday Night in the Church Basement

frayed edges / of your bulging backpack / remind me that the perimeter

Dogs on the Run

I hear my husband singing “Dogs on the Run,” / to the tune of “Band on the Run,” out in the kitchen

I Play Nostalgic Songs

I’m like Billy Joel, / playing nostalgic songs / that everyone knows— / I’m in a wheelchair

Forum, May 2025

Letters from our readers

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