The Cost of a Healing Gift

The discovery of a gift for healing is only the first step in a process of learning and discipline.

John Jeremiah Edminster

Poetry

A Day of Waiting

FJ Poetry: "Holy Saturday waits / Like a patch of dirt in the lawn / Nothing happening / But shoots, then buds appear."

Geoff Knowlton

Poetry

Passages

FJ Poetry: Perhaps my death will be like Dad’s…

Marsha Foss

Forum April 2018

Letters from our readers

Staff

News April 2018

News of Friends: New website features WWI conscientious objectors; Evangelical Friends Church cuts funding for Barclay Press; Farm conference held at Friends Meeting School.

Staff

Quaker Works April 2018

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy…

Staff

Full Access

March 2018 Full Issue Access

FJ Members can download the full PDF of the March issue or read any article online.

Staff

Among Friends

Among Friends: All Land Is Holy Land

An introduction to our March issue on Quakers and the Holy Land.

Martin Kelley

Features

A Network of Love

An Indiana witness in Palestine, remembered.

Lois Jordan

Features

What Once Was Can Be Again

Working on a shared vision of equality and a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

Sandy Rea

Features

Palestine and Israel

A decolonial framework for justice and peace.

Tabitha Mustafa and Sandra Tamari

Features

When Dialogue Stands in the Way of Peace

People-to-people programs can cause harm when they don't address structural issues.

Mike Merryman-Lotze

Features

A Loving Quaker Journey to BDS

A Friend struggles to find a position on the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement.

Lauren Brownlee

Poetry

how to be home

FJ Poetry: "site on a wooden stool / naked as an orphan"

Amy Baskin

Poetry

To Fathom

FJ Poetry: "I take each stone into my curious palm. grub-gray, salmon, rounded well and calm."

Diana Cole

Forum, March 2018

Letters and commentary from our readers.

Staff

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…