On Wednes­day Friends Jour­nal exec­u­tive direc­tor Gabe Ehri told us all to work from home until fur­ther notice. For­tu­nate­ly we had just got­ten the April issue off to press, which is good because final proof­ing is best done in per­son. Now we’re all ping­ing each oth­er with Slack and Zoom and hun­ker­ing down into the new normal.

We do have an arti­cle on COVID-19 from Katie Bres­lin and I’m updat­ing it with Quak­er resources that I’m find­ing. There are a lot. Every year­ly and month­ly meet­ings is tak­ing this seri­ous­ly. All of my pub­lic events this week­end have now been canceled.

It will be inter­est­ing to see how we all adapt. I think I’m going to be a lot chat­ti­er online to make up for the loss of face-to-face con­tacts. I expect this email newslet­ter to go back to fre­quent post­ings. If you find resources you think I should share let me know by email (martink@martinkelley.com) or Twit­ter (martin_kelley). Be safe every­one. Check in our your neigh­bors. Be gen­er­ous. Enjoy the lit­tle joys that come with iso­la­tion (I’m hap­py to lose my com­mute for awhile and to see my fam­i­ly more). And keep every­one in your prayers.