QuakerSpeak, October 2021

Several Friends talk about their favorite words and phrases from Quaker vocabulary and share words and phrases with powerful spiritual resonance.

Staff

News

Sarah Clarke to lead QUNO New York

On September 22, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Quaker United Nations Committee in New York announced that Sarah…

FJ News Editors

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QUNO Geneva Office selects Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as next director

In August, Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva, Switzerland, named Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as its next director. Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a…

FJ News Editors

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Tim Gee named next FWCC General Secretary

Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) announced on July 26 that Tim Gee would be its next general secretary. The…

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Sarah Gillooly begins as Baltimore Yearly Meeting General Secretary

On July 19, Sarah Gillooly began their term as the general secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM). Gillooly, who uses…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

What are we going to do about these problems?

Introduction to our September issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Creative Writing with Miss Ruth

Working with Prisoners on the Path to Repentance

Ruth Askew Brelsford

Features

A Matter of Grace

Mary Cadbury Remembers 40 Years of Prison Worship

Carol Pauli

Features

Reinvesting in Justice

How Maryland Quakers Challenged Mass Incarceration

Phil Caroom and Jim Rose

Features

Get Thee Behind the Walls

Mutual Spiritual Accompaniment Inside and Outside Prison

Judy Meikle

Features

Prison as Exile

Finding Mercy While Serving Life without Parole

Heather Lavelle

Features

Too Much Justice, Too Much Mercy

An Interview with Jim Moreno

Joyce Hinnefeld

Features

We Have Much Left to Do

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

José Santos Woss

Features

When Peace Requires Police

Applying the Friends peace testimony to police reform.

Mike Clarke

Online Features

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.

Ann Birch

Online Features

More than the Worst Thing They’ve Ever Done

An Extended Interview with Jim Moreno

Joyce Hinnefeld

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…