Restoring Our Parts of the World

Introduction to our October issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Restore the Timeline

Learning to live in the 200-year present.

S.E.W. Smith

Features

Like Dew on the Tender Plants

Coming together to protect our immigrant neighbors.

Michelle Downey

Features

An Extremist for Love

The resurrection and the life of Jesus.

Christopher Stern

Features

Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence

The Inner Light of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

tonya thames-taylor

Features

Forgotten Photos Identify Vietnam War Political Prisoners

A Quaker antiwar activist’s documentation reconnects people decades later.

Jane Griffith Barton

Features

Disability, Faith, and Guatemala’s Social Debt

A Quaker perspective from Latin America.

Belén Hernández

Features

Ending Outward Wars

The Quaker influence on the United Nations.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Poetry

Go to the Well at Siloam

Tell the waters who sent you. / Soak in them. There’s nothing special / about Siloam, nor in your moans.

Shaun Anthony McMichael

Poetry

School Nights

Our DSM-IV* was a blooming garden / Of highlighted pages, sticky notes,

Casey Morris

Poetry

Some Solace

penning new poems / as old age approaches.

Daniel Skach-Mills

Forum

Forum, October 2026

Letters from our readers

Staff

Quakers and Money

Budgets as a Tool for Liberation

A budget can be an essential tool for liberation—a place where we can put our values into action.

Diana Yañez

Witness

“I Was in Prison, and You Visited Me”

Friends' encounters with detained immigrants.

Josih Hostetler and Stan Jones

Lives of Friends

Peace at the End

Relearning my role as a hospital chaplain.

Carl Magruder

FJ Spotlight

Sandy Spring Friends School Saved from Closure

Students excel after alumni fundraising effort secures reopening.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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…