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Among Friends

Welcome to Our Fifth Annual Fiction Issue

[…] up week after week, year after year. My meeting’s recent history had a stretch during which there were only two […]

Martin Kelley

Features

What Is Actually There

[…] he’s 80.  Longfellow Niederlander had just turned 94. A retired history teacher, the old man felt a sudden, urgent spiritual […]

Peterson Toscano

Quaker Works

Quaker Works, October 2025

[…] efforts among Friends to engage with complex aspects of Quaker history. In the past, some Quakers took part in, or […]

Staff

September 2025 Books

Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America AND Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations: Quaker Complicity with Slavery (1657–1776) and White Supremacy

[…] to lynchings to prisons and poverty—the first 12 chapters of history are dense with data, documents, and stories, and they […]

Reviewed by Michele Sands

Forum

Forum, September 2025

[…] come to grips with a sad part of the past history of Quakers. I would like to point out that […]

Staff

Reflection

Nantucket Bones: My Quaker Identity Considered

[…] my late maternal great-aunt and corroborated in a transcribed oral history of her recorded when she was in her 80s. […]

A.V. Crofts

Features

The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

[…] diversity runs and how easily that fear ignites into violence. History of Pennsylvania Hall: which was destroyed by a mob, […]

Trudy Bayer

Features

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement

[…] Quakers present did not heed her words that day, but history shows that Black voices—spoken, shouted, whispered in the dark—were […]

Jim Fussell

Features

Risking Faithfulness

[…] years. Some Friends revival moments have changed the course of history, while others remained small movements of localized faithfulness. Still […]

Jade Rockwell

February 2025 Books

When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity

[…] time and place. Our faith is wrapped up in that history. I wonder: What racial, moral, and colonial assumptions are […]

Reviewed by Alicia McBride