Trust the Process

Our introduction to the October 2020 issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Separated Worship

The lockdown helps a Friend expand her notion of worship.

Ellen McBride

Features

Healing the Shadow of Racism

Looking for hope in this moment of history.

Lynn Peery Mills

Features

Process or Faithfulness

Finding a sense of the meeting through the Living Presence.

Michael Wajda

Features

Careful Discernment or Spiritual Timidity?

Why do we assume the Spirit works at a slow, deliberate pace?

Kat Griffith

Features

The Middle-class Capture of Quakerism and Quaker Process

A conversation with George Lakey.

Donald W. McCormick

Poetry

Support Committee for a Quaker Friend, Elected to Public Office

—for Kathleen Kelly Outside the meeting, the usual mutter: wordword wordword word wordity…

Alexander Levering

Poetry

Putting in the Pieces

(“meeting for worship for business”) The meeting moved forward slowly. The borders had been established, and now different ones were…

Nancy Thomas

Poetry

Things to Do While Waiting

Interview your walls, doors, circulation, and power sourcePlane down resentmentsDrain sorrowsSweep out excusesHang injuries on the line to blow awayRestructure…

Mary Ann Petersen

Forum

Forum, October 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Interview

Interview with Quaker Singer Paulette Meier

Paulette Meier is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, part of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting. She didn’t…

Karie Firoozmand

Viewpoint

Why I Left … And Why I Came Back

Online worship brings a Friend back to meeting.

Aud Supplee

Quaker Works Archives

Quaker Works October 2020

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy Consultation, Support, and Resources Development Education…

Quaker Works

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, October 2020

Derek Brown elaborates on his model of pastoral leadership grounded in humility, vision, and support for the flourishing of Friends’ gifts.

Staff

News

Colin Saxton returns to Friends United Meeting

On August 15, Friends United Meeting (FUM) General Secretary Kelly Kellum announced that Colin Saxton will be returning to the…

FJ News Editor

News

Woolman at Sierra Friends Center damaged by wildfire

The morning of August 17, the Jones fire swept across the campus of Woolman at Sierra Friends Center, driven by…

FJ News Editor

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…