Thank You, Friends

I am continuously amazed and incredibly grateful for the support we receive here at Friends Publishing Corporation for the ministry… Susan Corson-Finnerty

Gun Violence Can Be Reduced

I wish to express my appreciation for the editorial, "Who is really to blame?" (FJ June, Among Friends, on the… Paul Schweri

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience

Hideko Tamura is a second soprano with Rogue Valley Peace Choir, a retired social worker, an author, and a survivor… Donnan Beeson Runkel

Filming the Life of Gobi Women

Leading, 1997 As I sit in meditation, I see single women lliving a nomadic life—women using wool from their sheep… Sas Carey

God: The Ultimate Vacuum Trap

Yesterday I was cold. Not surprising, as we live at 6,000 feet altitude in an inadequately insulated house with no… Alicia Adams

‘How Is Thee’: Musings on Ironies and Self Justification Among Friends

For a long time I have had a back-burner interest in the evolution of the use of thee, thou, and… Albert W. Briggs Jr.

Useful Fictions

I am a scientist, an atheist, and a skeptic who does not believe in any form of the supernatural. Nonetheless,… George Gjelfriend

A Frog Fable

Frogs from near and far gather at the edge of Quaker Pond adjacent to the old meetinghouse, croaking loudly as… Stanley Zarowin

An Eleventh Commandment?

At an interfaith conference on "Waters of Life, Sacred and Profaned" held in April 2007 at Saint Michael’s College in… Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox

Summer Doldrums Blown Away

Even knowing from experience that "the Spirit can live in the jails," as George Fox once remarked, there are hot… Keith R. Maddock

Credo

I believe there is an ultimate reality that makes existence possible and continuously sustains creation. At the human level, we… Betty Jean Rugh Elder

Explaining Windows to an Ant

For me, the Earth is an unchanging solid foundation. The sun rises in the East, travels across the sky, and… Mark S. Cary
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