Living Truth with Integrity

Honoring the lives of trans, nonbinary, and intersex Friends.

Ted Heck and Jim Fussell

Features

Josiah Marvel and the Civilian Readjustment Committee

Reclaiming queer Quaker history.

Brian T. Blackmore

Online Features

Suffering in Silence

The plight of trans Friends in Kenya.

George Busolo Lukalo

Online Features

The Clearness Committee That Changed My Life

Stony Run Meeting and clearness committee play a major role in the author's journey.

Erica Burns

Poetry

Trilogy

I was a girly boy— / A real live boyish girl.

Douglass Allen

Poetry

Pneuma

He once declared / That the spirit is like this.

Geoff Knowlton

Poetry

Recovering Boy

He’s maybe 5. / Thrashing, crying post-op.

Gay Norton Edelman

Forum

Forum, March 2026

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Faith and Practice

How Many Quakers Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

Quakerism in three jokes.

Andy Stanton-Henry

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, March 2026

The secret to Quaker prayer: holding in the Light.

Staff

Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee

Film Review

Disruptive and Downright Weird

A Quaker reviews the Shaker film The Testament of Ann Lee.

Ron Hogan

News

Hoopes Pleads Guilty to Assaulting an ICE Agent, Faces Up to 20-Year Sentence

Federal property damage charges dropped; sentencing scheduled for May 12.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

Letting Everything Come In

Silence and the possibility of radical love.

Jimin Kang

News

Hoopes Trial Change of Plea Hearing Scheduled [Updated Feb. 17, 2026]

A change of plea hearing is scheduled for February 18 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Last August, the Portland Quaker activist pled not guilty to two charges.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Police and Protestors at St. Paul International Airport

Online Features

Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

Friends in other U.S. cities prepare to protect their immigrant neighbors.

Sharlee DiMenichi

meetinghouse on Madison Avenue in Albany, NY

Witness

Love Melts ICE

Albany Friends witness in support of immigrants.

John Amidon

Riki Panganiban on What Can We Say?

Thank you for sharing this. A very useful summation of our Quaker approach to the divine…
Ingrid Rogers on Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026]

A wonderful news update!
Forrest Curo on What Can We Say?

It seems to me a commonplace observation that when any person begins to experience communication/communion with…
Neal Burdick on Hoopes Begins 30-Month Prison Sentence at Minimum-Security Camp in Oregon [Updated]

Let me get this straight: Quaker-affiliated Jacob Hoopes has been sentenced to 30 months in prison…