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Uprooting Racism (abridged)

• Authored by:
• Vanessa Julye

My son was raised as a Quaker, but he left the meeting and joined an African American mega-church. Both our daughters were raised as Quakers, and they also left. During a retreat I attended this summer, several African American Friends told me they no longer attend their Quaker meetings because they cannot tolerate the racism they experience there on a weekly basis.

On Children (September 2018)

In Memory of Mary Dyer

• Authored by:
• Stanford Searl

The martial music plays, bronzed alive only the invisible songs survive to fuse two sculptures in a final swoon singing today’s melodies of hope and doom, the Holy Spirit’s breath whispering between them as Mary Dyer speaks to the Colonel’s men, urging them to ascend to Jesus once again, chanting songs of the beginning and the end

On Mixture (November 2018)

Calls to the Annual Sessions 2019

• Authored by:
• Molly Wingate,
• Sandy Kewman,
• Lucretia Humphrey

June 9-16, 2019; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM

On Water (March 2019)

Warner Mifflin, Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (review)

• Authored by:
• Emily Teipe

In Warner Mifflin, Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist, Professor Gary B. Nash brings to life a long-neglected leader of the Quaker abolitionist movement. Although largely unknown to historians and scholars, Mifflin was known and admired by his contemporaries – including such prominent figures as Washington, Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson – who saw in him a tireless and premiere legislative lobbyist who worked at the local, state, and federal levels for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

On Puzzles (May 2019)

Black. Christian. Anarchist.

• Authored by:
• Zae Asa Illo

I am an African American whose encounter with God is more an attitude than belief system, a certain swagger and daring in the face of what black liberation theologian James Cone would refer to as “obvious failure.” By all quantitative standards, the post-Reconstruction experience of African Americans would meet the definition of failure. Today, the median wealth of single Black women is – prepare yourself – five dollars. In San Francisco, African Americans are only five percent of the population. If all religious practice is a response to a set of particular historical circumstances what can speak to this collective misery? The African American religious experience is ultimately about the quest for freedom and self-determination.

On Control (July 2019)

Friends-of-Color Epistle, June 17, 2019

• Authored by:
• Amanda Beattie,
• Zae Asa Illo,
• Kat Northrup

Dear Friends Everywhere,

On Control (July 2019)

David Johnson at PYM

• Authored by:
• Sandy Kewman

Dear Friends Everywhere:

On Control (July 2019)

Response to a Telling of History

• Authored by:
• Doug Wile

Dear Editor:

On Control (July 2019)

The Fancy Sunday Hat

• Authored by:
• Elizabeth Boardman

We have one Friend in our Quaker meeting who often comes to worship in a highly-colored and carefully put-together outfit, including an ornate Sunday hat. This is unusual for an unprogrammed meeting.

On Art (March 2020)

Calls to the Annual Sessions 2020

• Authored by:
• Gale Toko-Ross,
• Valerie Ireland,
• Sandy Kewman,
• David Zeiss

June 14-21, 2020; Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

On Art (March 2020)