What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

Peterson Toscano

Welcome to Our Fifth Annual Fiction Issue

Introduction to our November issue.

What Is Actually There

Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.

My Troublesome BFFs

Nineteenth-century Quaker troublemakers tumble out of the library stacks.

My Ghosts

Who will speak for the unmarked dead?

A Fine Showing for the Court of Owls

Benjamin Lay comes back home from yearly meeting.

A Silver Trumpet Calls

Respectability and frivolity collide with a call to service.

A Quaker’s Gun

When the patriots came to seize the weapons.

The Comfort of Horror

An interview with American author Chuck Wendig.

Coffee Hour, 1965

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our 

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29

Forum, October 2025

Letters from our readers.

Stand Still Where the Strength Is

Margaret Fell for modern Friends.

I Have Set Before You Today Life and Prosperity

New for 2025, the Bible Study column runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues.

QuakerSpeak, November 2025

Spiritual artistry of Lars Hertervig

U.S. Pacific-Area Quakers Join Third Lawsuit Against DHS

More meetings have joined a July lawsuit against DHS over the threat of federal immigration enforcement in houses of worship.

Quaker Retreat Information - Earth & Ember

Latest Book Reviews

Current Issue

Fiction

November 2025

Recent Comments

Get the Friends Journal Newsletter

Regular updates on all our latest stories, delivered straight to your inbox.