Meeting with Friends in an Old Library

A visitor settles down at the library table at Beacon Hills Friends House.

Sheilah Hill

Interviews

Interview with Friends Journal’s Book Review Editor

An interview with our Books editor Karie Firoozmand.

Staff

Interviews

Interview with Friends Journal’s Assistant Book Review Editor

We talk with the editor of our children's book reviews.

Staff

Features

Library as Metaphor

A 180-year-old Quaker library begins a new chapter.

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Poetry

Sunday Morning Whiteout

FJ Poetry: All night falling snow, a trackless silence…

Franchot Ballinger

Poetry

Vigil

FJ Poetry: The hospice nurse was shaving his slack jaw when we arrived…

Tina Schumann

Online Features

Co-curricular Learning in the Quaker and Special Collections

A look behind the scenes at Haverford Library Quaker and Special Collections.

Mary Crauderueff

Online Features

Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

Queries for Friends to consider as they discern how to maintain a meeting library.

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Online Features

Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances?

Information is coming to us in different ways than it did in the first 350 years of Quaker history.

Carol Kitchen

Online Features

Crostini with Olive Tapenade… and Tea

Friends find a tasty way to raise funds for the meeting library.

Ruthie Tippin

News

News November 2017

News of the Quaker world: AFSC on North Korea, Quaker groups partner with Everence, Quaker House appointment.

Staff

Uncategorized

Student Voices 2017-18

The fifth annual Student Voices Project is underway! This year's theme is Testimony Stories, and the deadline is February 12, 2018.

Staff

Full Access

October Full Issue Access

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

Staff

Among Friends: Is Conscience Coming Back in Style?

Our introduction to the October 2017 issue.

Martin Kelley

Forum October 2017

Letters and comments from our readers.

Staff

Features

Let’s Be Salt

Learning, teaching, and practicing the extraordinary power of nonviolence.

Daniel O. Snyder

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…