Quaker Life, Retro Summer:Fall 2024

Purchase a single copy of the Summer, Fall 2024 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Retro.

"There is no doubt that a great deal of what passes for
Quakerism today is highly discouraging. There are a few bright spots, but the general picture is far from satisfactory. The two alternatives for which we have been willing to settle are both bad, and there is no real hope except as we are willing to face the situation with candor. It is a time for plain speech."
- D. Elton Trueblood, January 1962

At first look, the connecting thread between the articles in this edition of Quaker Life are not readily apparent. Nor is there any reason to think they would be. They were chosen very much at random. The Richmond staff of Friends United Meeting sat around our conference room table and each chose one or two articles published in the Quaker Life that came out in the month and year of our birth, or closest to it. (So the articles were all written between 1962 and 1986.) There was no criteria for what we chose -  just something that caught our interest. But at a second look, there are some ideas that recur from issue to issue, or from recent issues of Quaker Life to these past issues. Of course, the deepest and most frequently recurring theme is Quaker life itself - that is, the efforts of Friends to live according to the Quaker understanding of the gospel, and to look at the world 
with that Quaker understanding of the gospel as a lens.