Assumptions We Might Consider

Introduction to our February issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Patch by Patch

Tending the spaces right in front of us.

Michelle Downey

Features

Welcoming the Stranger

Quakers in Costa Rica support asylum seekers deported by Trump.

Lynnette Arnold

Features

From Lament and Anger to Love and Hope

Meeting for healing what breaks our hearts.

Merry Stanford

Features

Extending into the Eternal

The experience of gathered worship.

Marcelle Martin

Toros Roslin, Fiery Furnace, Mashtots, 1266. Tempera painting and gold.

Features

Silence as Refiner’s Fire

Speaking from the core of me.

Leticia Garcia Tiwari

Features

Guardian and Guide

A Friend’s two secret angels.

John Andrew Gallery

Poetry

In Need of Repair

A metaphor for today.

Jennie Sherwin

Poetry

Work

She asks why I do it. / What’s to be gained / From the daily grind—

Bart Edelman

Poetry

Singer of Everyday Miracles

For Michael Glaser.

Wayne Karlin

Forum

Forum, February 2026

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Online Features

How to Clerk a Meeting for Healing What Breaks Our Hearts

A guide for clerks.

Merry Stanford

Viewpoint

A Hope for Peace and Security in Israel–Palestine

Reflection in the hope of presenting a long view of the current tragedy of two peoples.

Malcolm Bell

Faith and Practice

The Perfect Teachers

Educating small humans as a spiritual practice.

Megary Sigler

Bible Study

Even Now the Ax Is Lying at the Root of the Trees

The Bible Study column runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues.

Ron Hogan

Lenape elder Annette Ketchum speaking to group

FJ Spotlight

In Northeast Philadelphia, a Small Meeting Preserves Indigenous and Black History

Byberry Meeting has joined a partnership with the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia to promote historic sites along the Poquessing Creek Trail.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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…