FJ Poetry: When it's silent / in this room

FJ Poetry: He writes in this daily devotional…

We have more in common than we might first imagine.

Interviews with those new to Friends.

Demonstrations, conferences, appointments, and Quakers on U.S. money.

FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an open letter in which they acknowledged their homosexuality or bisexuality and invited others to discuss issues of concern, both within AFSC and in the larger community. Eventually over 200 signed the “statement of support and solidarity

FJ Podcast: At four years old, she had no way of knowing that one day she would again tell her mother she was a girl—this time definitively—or that her gender identity would help set the wheels in motion for a new policy at George School to support transgender students.

FJ Podcast: As a peace and justice organization, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) places its work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and recognition within an international human rights framework and draws on the historic Quaker witness for peace.

FJ Podcast: The language we use to talk about our gender, sexuality, and bodies is useful when it can clarify, claim, and help understand identity; it is damaging and harmful when it is used to negate, box-in, or deny identity and lived reality.

FJ Podcast: I came out as queer without feeling any conflict with my identity as a Friend. But as my commitment to Quakerism as a spiritual path deepened, I realized that there was a disconnect between Quakerism and my emerging sexuality.

An introduction to the May issue on Gender and Sexuality.

A reader suggests that even a simple tool such as Wikipedia can help us learn more about violent extremists.