Quaker Speak Video Banner: Navigating Gender Transition

QuakerSpeak, February 2026

Navigating gender transition as a Quaker.

Staff

Images from some of 2025's top stories at Friends Journal: ICE agents on the move; a burning shack; a Quaker holding a peaceful protest sign.

Our Top Five Articles for 2025

Let's look at this year's most widely read features.

FJ Editorial Staff

Indigenous Peoples and Friends cover banner

Unintentional Consequences, Intentional Repair

Introduction to our January issue.

Martin Kelley

FCNL’s 2024 Spring Lobby - Group Holding Truth Healthing Justice Sign

Speaking with Friends About Indian Boarding Schools

A Native Perspective

Rachel Overstreet

Group of Friends Gathered for Photo

Friends Stand with the Brothertown

Joining an Indian Nation’s efforts to regain recognition.

Kat Griffith

A Homecoming for the Arapaho and Cheyenne

A reckoning for Quakers.

Paula Palmer and Paula Keeth

Never Too Late to Begin Repair

Acknowledging the dark legacy of Quaker-run Indian boarding schools.

Mary Zwirner and Gordon Bugbee

Jiwasa, the Communal We

Recovering a lost foundation of Aymara culture.

Ruben Hilari Quispe. Translated by Renzo Mejia Carranza

Indigenous and Quaker Both

Reflections from Friends in Indigenous-majority meetings.

Sharlee DiMenichi

snowy and foggy mountain scene

Never Seen

I’ve never seen frost on sand. / I’ve never seen waves withdraw …

Morrow Dowdle

water on a glass window

Joyful Noise

Arturo is preaching now. / The Aymara gutturals and rasps pour out

Nancy Thomas

Woman on the Piano

Music and Silence

We decided, since we are allowed to decide, / since our ritual is flexible, to have instead

Howard Nelson

Group of Women Standing Together

Online Features

Coming Back to the Land

A story of rematriation in Oneida Nation.

Eileen Flanagan

Two Face Silhouettes

Online Features

The Respectful Way of Life

A Quaker's education in the ethic of noninterference.

Glenn Morison

Forum, January 2026

Letters from our readers

Staff

Reflection group - two women comforting eachother

Being Heard and Being Attentive

The power of compassionate listening.

Star Ford

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