Silent Worship

FJ Poetry: "Mind staccato: warblers flit from bite to bite…"

Errol Hess

Witness

Bringing Decolonizing Home

FJ Witness

Meagan Fischer

Quaker Works October 2015

A semiannual feature dedicated to connecting Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations.

staff

FGC Gathering 2015 Plenary: Daryl Atkinson & Scott Holmes

Video recording from the 2015 FGC Gathering.

Courtesy Friends General Conference

Among Friends: On Decisions, Responsibilities, and Growth

An introduction to the September issue on Reproduction and Family Planning.

Gabriel Ehri

Viewpoint: Work and Family in the 1970s

Changing parental/work policies in Quaker organizations in the 1970s.

David Hadley Finke

Forum September 2015

Letters from our readers

Staff

Features

Holy Just As I Am

Traveling with infertility.

Suzanne W. Cole

Poetry

Target Practice at the Beach

Friends Journal poetry: "Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief…"

Alexander Levering Kern

One Friend’s Experience of Clearness Regarding Childbearing

Childrearing as a calling.

Stan Becker

Features

A Concern for Silence

Providing hospitality for and stopping the shaming of women seeking abortion.

Bridget Anderson

Poetry

In a Yellow Light

Friends Journal poetry: "Diaper-clad, / I was dash and go…"

Sunshine F. Branner

Features

Peace, Climate, and Reproductive Health

Human population growth is at the heart of many of today's conflicts.

Richard Grossman

Poetry

A Child Not Born

Friends Journal poetry: "Blip on a radar screen / like a storm building furious…"

Donovan McAbee

Features

A Truly Embodied Spirituality

The last in a three-part series on Quakerism, food, and the body.

Madeline Schaefer

Reflection

Bonds of Affection

Learning to love others as God loves us all.

Rhonda Mawhood Lee

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…