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Recent issues:

  • Turn­ing Weapons into Peace: My Inter­view with Scot­ty Utz
    09/18/2026
  • “Cre­ation­tide” and the Sea­sons of the Church and Earth
    09/11/2026
  • Be Ready to Answer the Phone
    08/21/2026
  • Philoso­phers Redis­cov­er­ing Plain­ness and Integri­ty in an Always-Online World
    08/14/2026
  • Johan Mau­r­er: Whose faith? Whose practice?
    04/17/2026
  • Cesar Chavez and me
    03/20/2026
  • March 29: A Quak­er Trans Day of Vis­i­bil­i­ty Gathering
    03/13/2026
  • Less is More: The Tes­ta­ment of Ann Lee
    01/30/2026
  • Unin­ten­tion­al Con­se­quences, Inten­tion­al Repair
    01/09/2026
  • The Ori­gin of the Quak­er SPICES testimonies
    12/26/2025

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Martin Kelley is a Quaker writer, workshop leader, and editor, with a focus on outreach, nonviolence, and the Christian roots of Friends. Sharing stories of Quakers as senior editor of Friends Journal magazine and blogger at Quaker Ranter. Learn more at MartinKelley.com.

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Latest Posts

  • How Do We Talk About Quaker Worship? Balancing Belief and Practice
    I talked with Jack Tripp, who teach­es ninth and eleventh grade Eng­lish at the same Quak­er school he… Read more: How Do We Talk About Quaker Worship? Balancing Belief and Practice
  • Turning Weapons into Peace: My Interview with Scotty Utz
    I inter­viewed Sep­tem­ber FJ author Scot­ty Utz about Guns-to-Garden Move­ment. Fas­ci­nat­ing wit­ness and some heart­break­ing sto­ries. From my intro:… Read more: Turning Weapons into Peace: My Interview with Scotty Utz
  • “Creationtide” and the Seasons of the Church and Earth
    A beau­ti­ful med­i­ta­tion by Bri­an Dray­ton on Quak­ers soft­en­ing on the ideas of times and sea­sons and how… Read more: “Creationtide” and the Seasons of the Church and Earth
  • Be Ready to Answer the Phone
    Thoughts on the sur­prise Tru­itt fam­i­ly vis­it yes­ter­day, because I know Quak­ers can be real­ly real­ly bad at this…… Read more: Be Ready to Answer the Phone
  • Truitt Family Visits Meeting
    I had a won­der­ful time play­ing host for a vis­it by an old Crop­well Meet­ing fam­i­ly that was vis­it­ing the… Read more: Truitt Family Visits Meeting

Reader Comments

  1. Melinda Wenner Bradley on Origin of the Quaker SPICES testimonies
  2. Mario May on The Quaker Peace Testimony: Living in the Power, Reclaiming the Source
  3. William Robert Martin on North American Quaker statistics 1937 – 2017
  4. Martin Kelley on Beyond the MacGuffins: Sheeran’s Beyond Majority Rule
  5. Steven Davison on Origin of the Quaker SPICES testimonies
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