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Friends Journal publishes a number of online‐only feature articles. Some are timely pieces on current events that shouldn’t wait for the longer timelines of print, while others are published alongside the print edition and expand on the themes explored that month.
Friends Journal publishes a number of online‐only feature articles. Some are timely pieces on current events that shouldn’t wait for the longer timelines of print, while others are published alongside the print edition and expand on the themes explored that month.
Choose a Resilient Community
Craig Jensen is a member of Monadnock (N.H.) Meeting. He farms at Sun Moon Farm with his wife, Megan; their son, Fox; and many friends that help make good work joyful. Sun Moon Farm is part of a small community called South of Monadnock that is actively seeking new members.
Suzanna Schell is a member of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, Mass., and a co-founder and resident of Cornerstone Village Cohousing in Cambridge, Mass. She is co-clerk of NEYM Legacy Gift Committee, a funding program that supports the ministries of New England Friends; and a member of the Board of Managers of Beacon Hill Friends House.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
The Great Food Transformation
Earthcare activism is a natural fit for Friends.
Elizabeth Root lives in the heart of the Finger Lakes with her family of three poodles. A retired social worker, she authored a book on children’s mental health in 2009. She is a member of the Perry City (N.Y.) Meeting in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
Food Choices, Relationship, and God
Learning to understand what we are actually hungry for.
Lorene Ludy is a member of Lincoln (Neb.) Meeting. She is a Benedictine Oblate and a Stephen Minister. She likes to eat and hang out with God.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
Interrupting the Family Barbecue: In Search of the Planetary Health Diet
The urgency of transforming our systems for food production.
After retiring in early 2015, Jim Ross jumped back into creative pursuits. He’s since published 75 pieces of nonfiction, several poems, and 200 photos in 80 journals in North America, Europe, and Asia. Jim and his wife—parents of two health professionals, grandparents of four toddlers—attend Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
A Critique of Health Consciousness
The possible ill effects of worrying too much and talking too much about our food choices.
Caroline Morris wrote a thesis on the connection between anorexia and asceticism and is a student at Earlham School of Religion.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society
How to move beyond denial and defensiveness when talking about race.
Since 2014 through Undoing Racism Group, an unofficial group of Friends seeking to co-create Beloved Community, Viv Hawkins has learned much about racism; she has much yet to learn and do. A member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, she embraces a ministry to foster faithfulness and Lola Georg, her life partner.
Posted in: Online Features, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Quaker Christian Ways and Roots
Returning to a comprehensive Christianity of behavior and belief.
Donne Hayden is a recorded minister and convinced Friend (convinced that all the first Friends were convinced Friends!). She served seven years as minister at Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting and is still a member. She retired in 2015 and currently works part-time for Wilmington Yearly Meeting as office administrator.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
How Am I a Christian?
Will others see us as Christians by our love?
Douglas C. Bennett served as president of Earlham College from 1997 to 2011. Now retired, he is a member of Durham (Maine) Meeting.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
The White Rabbit of Quaker Theology
Quakerism must be experienced, both individually and collectively.
Christy Randazzo is a convinced Friend and a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. They still sometimes attend a local Episcopal church with their family because it's where their family is rooted. However, to be honest, it's also because incense and candles can be quite lovely sometimes!
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and ChristianitySweet Baby Jesus
The present‐tense verbs of George Fox.
A convinced Friend since 1982, Patricia Wild is a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), where she serves on its Ministry and Counsel and Prison Fellowship Group. Her latest "book, _WellingUp.net_, is an interactive, experimental website that tells a Quaker novel online using podcasts and supplementary materials and links.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
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
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I Met God on a Train Last Week by Elizabeth Bajjalieh
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