Drawing Out Each Other’s Faithfulness

Supporting gifts and leadings in our meeting community.

Pamela Haines

Brooklyn Friends School seeks to dissolve its employees’ union citing “Quaker values”

On August 14, the head of Brooklyn Friends School (BFS), Crissy Cáceres, emailed parents and teachers stating that the school…

Listening as a Spiritual Practice

The Spirit creates the message and the speaker provides the words—the vocal part—but it is the audience which transforms those words into ministry.

Roads of Faithfulness

Our introduction to the September 2020 issue.

Finding the Intimacy of an Infinite God

Listening to the Divine speak to us from deep within our own soul.

On the Road to Hominy

Ministry interrupted leads to ministry unexpected.

Recognizing Racism, Seeking Truth

Making amends, not excuses, for unintended racism.

The Spiritual Injustice of Poverty

Approaching the injustices before us.

Okay, Boomer, It’s Time to Fund Reparations

What are we willing to do to be antiracist?

The Fiery Forge of Polarization

History shows that moments of political polarization are opportunities for change.

Nona and the Polenta

—For Ian, Sadie, April: your great-grandmother’s story Lombardia was a banquet before the Germans carvedthe green hills with their black…

Timing

Timing is everything, sages say Girls learn it as early as double-Dutch jump rope Your turn comes up, you wait,…

When They Ask You to Pray

When they ask you to praythey will, in most cases,bow their heads and close their eyesand wait. And they will…

Forum, September 2020

Letters from our readers.

Ambassadors for Peace on a Global Stage

QUNO Reflects on 75 Years of the United Nations.

Anger in the Time of a Total Freaking Mess

In the past few months, I’ve seen the phrase “love in the time of coronavirus” a few times, and I…

QuakerSpeak, September 2020

“Being a Quaker makes me a better therapist and being a therapist makes me a better Quaker. Learning to see that of God in everyone helps me to sit in the distress that others might bring in so that I can show up in a more authentic, genuine way, willing to enter into those kind of dark, suffering spots that people bring into therapy.”

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