September Full Issue Access

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Staff

Among Friends: Quaker Tools, New and Revisited

Our introduction to the September 2017 issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Forum, September 2017

Letters from our readers: Overworked caregivers; Minding our Light?; More listening, less explaining.

Staff

Features

God as a Cow and the Duck Index

Images from dreams provide unexpected life and spiritual guidance.

Tina Tau

Features

Ah, Go Fly a Kite!

Paper, glue, wind, and metaphors at the FGC Gathering.

Charles G. Jones

Features

Quaker Faith, Quaker Practice, and Quaker Boards

The search for courage and integrity in the boardroom is complicated and ongoing.

Jacob D. Stone

Features

A Community Formed for Faithfulness

We need to help each other grow in recognizing, discerning, and responding when the Spirit leads.

Marcelle Martin

Features

A Mysticism for Our Time

Rediscovering the spiritual writings of Thomas R. Kelly.

L. Roger Owens

Poetry

Morning Thoughts

FJ Poetry: "A songbird awakens /the morning just outside…"

Betty Jamerson Reed

Poetry

Seeing Truth

FJ Poetry: "It’s true, things stick…"

Heather Heath Reed

Online Features

100 Years of Quiet Tenacity

Friends of Fairhope, Alabama.

Laura Melvin

Online Features

Wild Birds, Fantasy, and the Possible

A memoir through books.

James W. Hood

Online Features

How Far Can We Take Thou Shalt Not Judge?

Can we examine our judgements and find reasons to understand?

Rebecca Payne

Earthcare

Earthcare: Finding God in the Garden

Working in the earth keeps a Friend grounded.

Katie Green

News

News, September 2017

New U.S. yearly meeting formed; Baltimore Friends witness for bail reform; Columbia Meeting observes Sabbath of Remembrance; Flushing Meeting participates in Bowne House Museum event in Queens; Retirement.

Staff

Understanding Death through Life

Our introduction to the August issue on The Art of Dying and the Afterlife.

Martin Kelley

Mary Linda McKinney on The Body

What a great last line, Nichole. This has the uneasy ambiguity of a Shirley Jackson story…with…
Susan on What Is Actually There

Wow! Profound. Truth captured with a layering effect: Mom, the old man, the snake, the meeting,…
Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…