Search

It Breaks My Heart

The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend's heart

Kate Pruitt

Outreach Is Just Another Word for Sharing

"We are also to be witnesses for God, and to propagate his life in the world, to be instruments in…

Kathy Hersh

Ohio Yearly Meeting Gathering and Quaker Spring

A Philadelphia Friend finds spiritual renewal in fellowship with Conservative Quakers.

John Andrew Gallery, with comments by Susan Smith

The Covenant of Peace

What did Jesus mean by the “Kingdom of God,” what the early Quakers called the “Covenant of Peace” (Ezk. 34:25)?…

Gerard Guiton

Dispatches from a Week of Piano Practice

Faith and practice.

Margery Abbott

The Winds of Homecoming: Transforming Loss and Loneliness into Solitude

By Christopher Goodchild. Christian Alternative Books, 2021. 168 pages. $16.95/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Christopher Goodchild is on the autism spectrum, which contributed…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

By R. Melvin Keiser. Christian Alternative Books, 2021. 320 pages. $22.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. I was delighted when I was asked to…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

Are You a Friend?

Our communities are not beacons of the Spirit simply on the basis of being called "Quaker."

Peter Moretzsohn

When the Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of Ministry

By Jay Marshall. QuakerPress of FGC, 2020. 128 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Friends like to say that we are all ministers,…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Fall Down Seven Times

A story about failure, dead ends, and misunderstandings.

Amy Ward Brimmer