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Features
I Think I Understand Now by Andrew Huff

Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment by Joe McHugh

Supporting Recovery Among Friends by Johanna Jackson

Confronting the Challenge of Drugs by Eric E. Sterling

The Liturgy of Me by r. scot miller


Poetry
I Met God on a Train Last Week by Elizabeth Bajjalieh


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Among Friends

Among Friends: Drugs, Brokenness, Violence, and Sin

Our introduction to the January Issue. Martin Kelley
Features

Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment

When can drugs bring us closer to God? Joe McHugh
Features

Supporting Recovery among Friends

What keeps us from helping fellow Friends with drug addictions? Johanna Jackson
Features

Confronting the Challenge of Drugs

How can we respond to the catastrophes brought on by the war on drugs? Eric E. Sterling
Features

The Liturgy of Me

The rhythms of a life stuck in a daily cycle of brokenness and violence. r. scot miller
Drugs

I Met God on a Train Last Week

FJ Poetry: "Bumbling along..." Elizabeth Bajjalieh
Forum

Forum, January 2020

Letters from our readers. Staff
Viewpoint

A Call to Work Outside Our Circles

A Friend responds to the New York Times opinion column on Quakers and pronouns. C. Wess Daniels
Reflection

Male, Female, or Whole?

Is there a Quaker testimony that incorporates the ideal of becoming whole? Elizabeth Boardman
News

Guilford College responds to Westboro Baptist protest

  hen three members of Westboro Baptist Church—a church in Topeka, Kans., known for its harsh anti-LGBTQ beliefs—came to protest… Staff
News

New York Yearly Meeting adopts yearly meeting membership

  ew York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) approved “at large membership” (membership through the yearly meeting instead of through a local… Staff
News

Pacific Yearly Meeting joins Friends General Conference

n October, Pacific Yearly Meeting’s request to join Friends General Conference (FGC) was accepted by the FGC Executive Committee. “We… Staff
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