Turning Weapons into Peace: A Talk with Scotty Utz

A conversation with Scotty Utz, author of “Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts: Inside the Guns to Gardens Movement.” In this…

Martin Kelley

Among Friends

Testing a Testimony

Introduction to our September issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Welcome and Grace

How one meeting ministers to military personnel.

Michelle Downey

Features

Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts

Inside the Guns to Gardens movement.

Scotty Utz

Features

We Must Sing Our Laments Together

On conscientious objection to a world of violence.

Andrew Gorby

Features

It’s Not Just About War

A British Quaker’s view on pacifism today.

Dewi Heald

Features

Learning the Art of Presence

A workshop for justice and peace in Ukraine.

Chris Hunter, O.H. Jackson Napier, and Tanya Williams

Features

The Renewal of Our Spiritual Schooling

Fostering a wisdom of peace in Guatemala.

Gustavo Adolfo Recinos

Poetry

Hello, Sun

With the Quakers, I sit outside the meeting room, under the giant redwood trees.

Jeanne Althouse

Poetry

Consolation

On a loose stone atop the bluestone wall / by the gate, this lichen’s a rough oval . . .

Anne Richey

Poetry

Hospice Bed Tales

If hospice beds could speak / We’d hear not much of ways to die / But of ways to live

Bonnie Stockslager

Forum

Forum, September 2026

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Quakers and Money

No Clean Hands

Discerning a personal ethics of economics.

Peterson Toscano

Service

Teaching Peace, Justice, and Equality in Early Childhood Classrooms

One meeting's collaboration with local schools.

Ingrid Chalufour

Faith and Practice

Grounded Presence, Sinking Deep

A testimony of a leading to eldership.

Sian Saul

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2026

ICE tried to silence them—these Quaker women fought back.

Staff

Donald Allen on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

This article cuts through all of the war propaganda and points one, like a compass, in…
Liz Bridgeman on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

I found this a powerful call to my conscience. I am 81 and do not feel…
Phil McLain on We Must Sing Our Laments Together

It seems all too easy to accept the way things are rather than work and pray…
Pierre on Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts

It’s a beautifil initiativ, but as long as your country continues and maintains a philosophy based…