We’re look­ing for arti­cles on rela­tion­ships for the Sep­tem­ber issue of Friends Jour­nal—fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships, roman­tic ones, men­tor­ships, or spir­i­tu­al Friends.

Pen­dle Hill’s The Seed pod­cast has a great inter­view with Adria Gulizia this week. Some good stuff. Here’s a sam­ple: “Peti­tions and demands is how the world works. That’s how the polit­i­cal sys­tem works. That’s not how the reli­gious Soci­ety of Friends is sup­posed to work. And yet, they felt like the stakes are too high to do things the Quak­er way. ‘We can’t do it the Quak­er way.’ ”

Real­ly great arti­cle in The Verge about the cables that route inter­net traf­fic across the oceans and the peo­ple who keep them in repair. Well writ­ten, amaz­ing­ly illus­trat­ed, with grip­ping per­son­al stories.