Forum: May 2016

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Features

A Gospel of Quaker Sexuality

A sex-positive and queer look at our spiritual testimonies from a queer, trans, polyamorous Quaker youth worker.

Kody Gabriel Hersh

Features

Gender, Sexuality, and Our Bodies

Exploring the language we use to clarify, claim, and understand identity.

Lisa Graustein

Features

Affirming Ivy

How way opened at George School to support transgender students.

Laura Noel

Features

Walking Cheerfully Over the World

Changing Friends school policies and learning from the leadership of children.

Jen Cort

Features

A Natural Woman

Unpacking and exploring the insights and observations of a life in two genders.

Chloe Schwenke

Features

Proclaiming Love and Justice

A history of American Friends Service Committee's work for LGBTQ rights and recognition.

Stephen McNeil

Poetry

Weather is what she has to say

FJ Poetry: Everywhere the earth is speaking.

Lynn Martin

Poetry

Satellite

FJ Poetry: Ever since I read / that gravitation works both ways…

Evelyn Tower

Let's Grow Together

Let’s Grow Together: Interview with Rob J Wilson

Interviews with those new to Friends.

Trevor Johnson

Life in the Meeting

Being Rufus Jones

Life in the meeting.

Daniel Lee

News

News: May 2016

News from the world of Friends.

Staff

Audio

Author Viv Hawkins reads “Questions of the Grail”

Finding the right questions for a spiritual accountability peer group.

Viv Hawkins

Audio

Author Amy Ward Brimmer reads “Fall Down Seven Times”

A story about failure, dead ends, and misunderstandings.

Amy Ward Brimmer

Audio

Interview with poet Bryan R. Monte, of “No One Ever Asks”

An interview with a March 2016 FJ poet.

Bryan R. Monte

Audio

Author Catherine Bly Cox reads “A Ministry of Prayer and Learning”

The School of the Spirit Ministry teaches Friends how to live and grow in grace. A Friends Journal podcast.

Catherine Bly Cox

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…