Community
From the magazine
Our spiritual family needs the test of love as well as the test of truth.
The Peaceable Kingdom 2.0: Young Adults and Quakerism’s Future
By Stephen Willis Dotson
Islamic Society of North America 2011 Convention
In this post-Christendom, post-9/11 country, there is a growing inter-faith youth movement, thanks in part to the ability of new tools to enable communication and relationship. Youth from many backgrounds are represented in this movement, but not Quakers. Why? I believe it is because Friends have not successfully implemented the contemporary structures and new technologies through which this movement functions. We experience a lack of connection both inside and outside of our community due to generational and technological issues. This post will be an exploration of how Muslim, Quaker, and other faith communities pursue work with young adults to achieve a vision for the future of their respective communities.
The Best Thanksgivings of All
A Great People to be Gathered: The View from Pendle Hill
From the magazine
Reflections on a place where I did some of the hardest and most important learning of my life, learning that I think was unlikely to happen anywhere else.
An Interview with God
By Sarah Katreen Hoggatt
Sarah in Europe
The foothills of the Swiss Alps, Paris streets, and a German café—this has been a whirlwind adventure thus far. Now at the half-way mark of my European speaking tour, I managed to sit down for some reflection on the Eurostar train headed towards England. At this point in my journey I find it helpful to remember that God is by my side, and if we were to speak out loud to each other, maybe it would sound like this. . . .
New Zealand Friends are Recovering after Earthquake
By New Zealand Yearly Meeting
The FJ Blog
After a February earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand, not the first in recent months, the first stage of rescue and recovery is nearly complete and attention is turning to the major work of demolition and rebuilding. . . .
Tokyo Friends Center and Meetinghouse in Mito Damaged by Earthquake
By FWCC
The FJ Blog
Japanese Friends are endeavoring to move forward with the task of recovering from the earthquake, tsunami, and now increasing radiation levels. . . .
Who is Thy Neighbor? A Quaker Look at Jordanian Localism
By Rachel Stacy
Touring Jordan: A Quaker Perspective
Loving couples are seeking divorce so that the women and children of the family may successfully seek resettlement outside of Jordan. The fathers and husbands who are left behind often return to Iraq to suffer the consequences of their past and the families are never again reunited. . . .
Seeing the Promised Land: Without and Within
By Rachel Stacy
Touring Jordan: A Quaker Perspective
Perhaps my linking of the Promised Land with the Kin-dom of Heaven is incorrect. Yet how many other times in history has someone stood up on a mountain, looked over the land, named it the new Eden and declared ownership? It’s a habit of humanity. . . .
Fire at Exeter (Pa.) Meetinghouse
By Rebecca Howe
The FJ Blog
A meetinghouse fire took half of Exeter (Pa.) Meetinghouse's roof last Sunday, March 20 . . .
