Skip to content
  • Subscribe to FJ
  • Advertise
  • Classifieds
  • Español
  • Swahili
  • Donate
Friends Journal logo
friends journal mobile logo
  • Find Quakers
  • Write for Us
  • Archives
  • Book Reviews
  • QuakerSpeak
  • 🎧 Podcast
  • Quaker.org
  • About
swes
  • Donate
  • Advertise
    • Create Classified
  • Classified
  • Archive
  • Submissions: Write for Friends Journal
  • QuakerSpeak
  • Book Reviews
  • About
  • Search
  • 🎧 Podcast
  • Meetings
  • Milestones & Obituaries

Fiction

November 2025

Poetry

Coffee Hour, 1965

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

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth Leigh Gavin Harder
Poetry

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29 Anne Maren-Hogan
Forum

Forum, October 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
Faith and Practice

Stand Still Where the Strength Is

Margaret Fell for modern Friends. Shulamith Clearbridge
Bible Study

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. Ron Hogan
November 2025 Books

Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

By David Chanoff. University of Georgia Press, 2025. 232 pages. $32.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. This is not the book I expected: a…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2025 Books

Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

By Jane E. Calvert. Oxford University Press, 2024. 608 pages. $35/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The Fairhill area of North Philadelphia is generally…

Reviewed by Signe Wilkinson

November 2025 Books

Awakening the Witness: Convincement and Belonging in Quaker Community

By Matt Rosen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 492), 2025. 30 pages. $8.50/paperback; $7.50/eBook. Matt Rosen’s engaging pamphlet, Awakening the Witness,…

Reviewed by John Andrew Gallery

November 2025 Books

A Revolution in Common

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2025. 124 pages. $10/paperback. Douglas Gwyn is writing as fast as he can: the introduction…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

November 2025 Books

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

Transcribed and edited by David R. Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2024. 80 pages. $16/paperback; $8/eBook. “What Canst We Say?” The…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

November 2025 Books

The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By Jennifer Powell McNutt. Brazos Press, 2024. 272 pages. $47.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. The “forgotten Mary” of this book is Mary…

Reviewed by Derek Brown

Load More

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Get free news and updates from Friends Journal and our QuakerSpeak video series.

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Share

  • Contact the Editors

Write

  • Contact the Editors
  • Write a letter to the Forum
  • Get permission to reprint

Explore

  • Obituaries/Milestones
  • Find a Quaker meeting
  • Read Quaker Classifieds
  • Read Quaker Works
  • Find Basic Information about Quakers

Members

  • Digital Edition Archives (PDFs)
  • Change Of Address

Support

  • Pay a bill or invoice
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

Friends Journal

  • Contact info
Donation

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Donation
  • © 2026 Friends Publishing Corporation.
  • Legal

Enter a keyword to search.

Log In

Forgot Password?

Don't have an account? Join

Manage your privacy

To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access that is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access that is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}
Manage your privacy
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access that is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access that is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}