What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

Peterson Toscano

Forum, January 2021

Surveying the flat lands Joe McHugh’s recent article on senior spirituality (“East of Denver,” FJ Dec. 2020) was inspiring and…

Watering Our Quaker Roots

Arch Street Meeting awards a grant to St. James School, an independent Episcopal milld-school in Philadelphia.

QuakerSpeak, January 2021

Have you seen the one with two young adult Friends talking about how they use humorous Internet memes to raise…

The Top Five Articles of 2020

Our Top Five Articles for 2020

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Guilford College plans to cut majors and faculty due to financial crisis

Last updated December 7, 2020 Guilford College announced on November 6 that due to financial shortfalls it plans to cut…

Hunkering Down, Growing Down

Reader, this has not been a typical year. As our days grow shorter and our nights colder here in the…

Other Voices, Other Zooms

Adapting in-person presentation for Friends online.

Full Circles and Kindred Spirits

The creation of a solstice choral work with poetic roots in Friends Journal.

765 Small Flags

A Friends community finds a creative way to respond to gun violence.

When to Speak

How can we know when it’s time to disrupt a narrative?

East of Denver

An emerging spirituality of aging.

Witnessing in Solidarity with the First Americans

Lifting Native voices up into our political conversation.

Breathing Safely

We cannot turn away from racial and environmental injustices.

The Case for a Testimony of Empowerment

Liberating and supporting one another.

Invitation and Reply

(for Ted Herman) Come along with me,His eyes on mine invite. I’m sorry; I don’t think; I mean,those shoes you…

Here Am I, Lord, Send Me

for my grandmother, Miriam Lindsey Levering (1913-1991) Blue light a nimbus from the TV, she’s listeningto the darkness delivering news…

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