Conversations with My Guardian Angel

A Friend with a terminal illness finds a comforter.

Robert Stephen Dicken

Poetry

Kissing the Ground, Instead

Every school day morning of my childhood, / I pledged allegiance, my hand on my heart,

Nancee Cline

Poetry

First Day Prayer

Come sit with me / You Who Will Not Be Hurried,

Ellen M. Ross

Poetry

ER

Six pink foam rollers frame her face. / She is wearing comfortable shoes.

Christie Taylor

Forum

Forum, April 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Divine Dress Code

My accidental journey into simplicity.

Amy Andreassen

FJ Spotlight

A ‘Friendly Woman’ Reunion

North Carolina Quaker women celebrate their work on periodical.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Viewpoint

A Quaker Attends a Gun Show

Seeking a process of peace.

Robert Fonow

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, April 2025

Living up to our radical past.

Staff

Interview

Eighty Years After Hiroshima, ‘The Mistake’ Comes to the United States

An interview with Quaker playwright Michael Mears and actor Riko Nakazono.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

On Hating Music

Tone-deaf and fine with it.

Daniela Salazar Monárrez

Online Features

A Person of Yin and Yang

Finding my spiritual home in Quakerism.

Margin Tianya Zheng

Online Features

Equality and Community in Friends Schools

Quaker teachers working with neurodivergent students.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

The Many Lenses of Quaker Experience

Introduction to our March issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

A Place of Unmasking

Quaker meetings as neurodivergent-affirming spaces.

Kate Fox

Features

Centering Up

Becoming the self God made me to be.

Mary Linda McKinney

Gene T. on Recovering from the Shame of Combat

This is really an extremely important and profound issue. I’m not sure I have the right…
Gerard Guiton on We Are Having an Effect

While I admire, and learn from, Greg Rolles’ activism, I am moved to comment on his…
Philip Fitz on A Union Unlike Any Other

One milestone in the process of acceptance of same-sex marriage was not in the article. Goshen…
Tom Smith on A Union Unlike Any Other

In 1999, Portland Friends School was established. It was a culmination of a committee made up…