Restoring Our Parts of the World

Introduction to our October issue.

Martin Kelley

Restore the Timeline

Learning to live in the 200-year present.

S.E.W. Smith

Like Dew on the Tender Plants

Coming together to protect our immigrant neighbors.

Michelle Downey

An Extremist for Love

The resurrection and the life of Jesus.

Christopher Stern

Forgotten Photos Identify Vietnam War Political Prisoners

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

Jane Griffith Barton

Disability, Faith, and Guatemala’s Social Debt

A Quaker perspective from Latin America.

Belén Hernández

Ending Outward Wars

The Quaker influence on the United Nations.

Sharlee DiMenichi

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

School Nights

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

Casey Morris

Some Solace

penning new poems / as old age approaches.

Daniel Skach-Mills

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

“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

Sandy Spring Friends School Saved from Closure

Students excel after alumni fundraising effort secures reopening.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Can We Escape the Cycle of Cruelty and Revenge?

A 9/11 reflection.

Rusty Conroy

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QuakerSpeak

The Gay Quaker Civil Rights Organizer That History Forgot

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