Death and Dying: A Personal Adventure

Death Cafés give people a place to share stories, confide their fears, and ask questions.

Alison Moore

Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem: June/July Full Issue Access

Friends Journal member subscribers can download full PDF or read any article online.

Staff

Life, Death, and Resilience

Among Friends: Our introduction to the June/July issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Forum June/July 2017

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

Love Cannot Be Overwhelmed

Viewpoint: Love cannot be overwhelmed. Love stays.

Michael Lane

Features

Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms

Learning disruption and resilience from ants and bees.

Barbara Dale

Features

What We Cannot Do Alone

A new way of relating is breaking through our institutional numbness.

Noah Merrill

Features

Worshiping Online

An experiment with online programmed meeting for worship.

Rachel Guaraldi

Features

Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?

Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?

Thomas Hamm

Features

Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem

We have to find ways to build relationships and maintain our Quaker tradition.

Margaret Fraser

Poetry

After Mowing Hay

FJ Poetry: "After a June day's work, having driven…"

Melva Priddy

Poetry

A Grace of Thanksgiving

FJ Poetry: "We are cooking / and talking about how some foods"

Michael S. Glaser

News

News, June/July 2017

News: Albuquerque Friends provide sanctuary; Friends engage in immigrant work; Bridge Film Festival announces winners; Earlham College receives $7.5 million gift; Oread Friends install a Little Free Library.

Staff

Online Features

ePublishers of Truth

The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends.

Kathleen Wooten

Online Features

Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance

Lives of Friends

The Value of Seminary

Lives of Friends: "But why go to seminary?"

Ashley M. Wilcox

Mary Linda McKinney on The Body

What a great last line, Nichole. This has the uneasy ambiguity of a Shirley Jackson story…with…
Susan on What Is Actually There

Wow! Profound. Truth captured with a layering effect: Mom, the old man, the snake, the meeting,…
Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…