Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed Judge Chuang’s ruling in an appeal filed by DHS.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Podcast

Quakers and Wealth

Season 6, Episode 4

Podcast

Quaker Talk

Open Worship, Guided Worship, Fluid Worship: A Talk with John Helding

A Quaker author talk. John Helding’s “How Can I Keep from Singing” appears in the August edition of Friends Journal.…

Martin Kelley

Among Friends

The Noises of Our Silences

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

How Can I Keep from Singing?

The marvelous mystery of worship-fluid meetings.

John Helding

Features

Experiments in Silent Worship

Reflections in three movements.

Joe McHugh

Features

The Quaker Ministry of Silence and the Bible

The biblical roots of silent worship as experienced by a Salvadoran Friend.

Jasson Arevalo

Features

The Gift of Good Boundaries

What I’ve learned from Eleanor Dart.

Susan Calhoun

Features

Child Safeguarding in Quaker Spaces

Truth and transparency in dealing with abuse.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

Chords and Discord

On sympathetic resonance and the value of disunity.

Anna Melville

Poetry

Credo

I believe / there is always hope.

Tammy Iralu

Poetry

Carried

The log where my dad perched as a bluebird / in the full sun

Kim Parko

Poetry

By the Pond

Turtles bask, / heads up, / in sun.

Magda Andrews-Hoke

Forum

Forum, August 2026

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Quakers and Money

Money and Ethical Finance? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Peterson Toscano talks about how, in life and work, after much searching he has found a way to harmoniously combine spirituality and money.

Peterson Toscano

Reflection

Peace, Silence, and the Inner Light

The author's uniquely powerful experience among the Quakers of Monteverde: silence, community diversity, and connection with nature.

Hazel Guindon Badilla

Forrest Curo on What Can We Say?

It seems to me a commonplace observation that when any person begins to experience communication/communion with…
Neal Burdick on Hoopes Begins 30-Month Prison Sentence at Minimum-Security Camp in Oregon [Updated]

Let me get this straight: Quaker-affiliated Jacob Hoopes has been sentenced to 30 months in prison…
Kruskal Hewitt on What Can We Say?

When I am asked, What do Quakers believe? I respond with three fundamental beliefs: 1) The…
Marie on Expectant Visions of a Christian Anarchist

Many religious organizations have become involved in providing housing. Building communities of friends, designed alongside the…