Quakers, Reparations, and Reparative Economies

Season 6, Episode 5

Podcast

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…

Testing a Testimony

Introduction to our September issue.

Welcome and Grace

How one meeting ministers to military personnel.

Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts

Inside the Guns to Gardens movement.

We Must Sing Our Laments Together

On conscientious objection to a world of violence.

It’s Not Just About War

A British Quaker’s view on pacifism today.

Learning the Art of Presence

A workshop for justice and peace in Ukraine.

The Renewal of Our Spiritual Schooling

Fostering a wisdom of peace in Guatemala.

Toward a Contextual Concept of the Quaker Peace Testimony in Central America

Central Americans’ primary knowledge of the Quaker peace testimony relates to George Fox and the early Quakers.

Seeking the Light of Peace

My experience in the Alternative to Violence Project

Is All Our Work the Peace Testimony?

Reflecting on the inward seeking and the outward practices.

Hello, Sun

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

Consolation

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

Hospice Bed Tales

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

Forum, September 2026

Letters from our readers.

No Clean Hands

Discerning a personal ethics of economics.

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