QuakerSpeak, August 2021

Have you seen the one about the difference between a welcoming and an inclusive space? Friends Lisa Graustein, Anthony Kirk,…

Staff

News

Gretchen Castle Becomes ESR Dean

Gretchen Castle becomes the first female dean of the Earlham School of Religion (ESR) with the beginning of her term…

FJ News Editors

News

Quaker Organizations Launch Racial Justice Initiative

On June 16, 2021, a coalition of four Quaker organizations announced a new initiative, Quakers Uprooting Racism, designed ”to accelerate…

FJ News Editors

News

Diane Randall to Leave Friends Committee on National Legislation

Diane Randall will leave her post as general secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) at the end of…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

Prophetic Quaker Communities

Introduction to our June-July issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

A Utopia in Progress

Communal life at Beacon Hill Friends House

Jennifer Newman and Nils Klinkenberg

Features

Utopia Before the Quakers

Thomas More and the Prophetic Purpose of Community

Derek Brown

Features

A Glimpse of Heaven on Earth

The First Quaker Communities

Stuart Masters

Features

The Land Is Free to All

Hicksite Friends and the Government of God

Thomas D. Hamm

Features

Hill of Vision

The Modern Community of Bryn Gweled

Robert Dockhorn

Online Features

Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Utopia

"Sometimes I forget how much Virginia Woolf is one of us."

Diane Reynolds

Poetry

The Roses

"Beyond the wall the distant roses shone, / the roses not their roses, not their own…"

Paul Willis

Poetry

Right Plant, Right Place

Since we chose our seeds / to cast upon rocky soil, / let's not blame the ground.

Margaret Fisher

Poetry

If You Can’t Love an Ordinary Bird

"If you can’t love an ordinary bird, / a cardinal, for example, on a branch…"

Neil Kennedy

Forum

Forum, June-July 2021

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

Transformative Return for Quaker Communities

What if there is no going back?

Keira Wilson

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…