News August 2015

News of Friends

Staff

Poetry

I Tell You No Jihad Can Change the Course of Rivers

Friends Journal poetry: Outside, a soldier rubs the muzzle / of his gun with sandpaper…

Linda Ashok

Poetry

I Tell Him about the Body Bags

Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done…

Meredith Trede

Poetry

His Last Years

Friends Journal poetry: He bought a / Cadillac, an RV, / shiny brass figurines with / granddad’s estate…

Danny P. Barbare

Online Features

Finding Fellowship After the Charleston Church Massacre

A Quaker is led to act in solidarity with the black community after the Charleston church shooting.

T. Hamboyan Harrison

The Toolkit of the Kingdom of God

Intro to the June/July issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Forum, June/July 2015

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Features

Organizing with the Spirit

A tragedy among Nebraska Friends provides a model for faith-based activism that supports community.

Lucy Duncan

Features

Main Street Activism and Wall Street Advocacy: Strange Bedfellows?

Working together on different but complementary strategies for change.

Jeffery W. Perkins

Features

Vigils and Demonstrating

The demonstrator can influence only through contagion.

Richard D. Hathaway

Features

Inner Peace, Outer Peace

A spiritual practice of integrity in communications.

Elizabeth De Sa

Features

Revelation and Revolution

The Apocalypse of John in the Quaker and African American spiritual traditions.

Daniel Seeger

Features

Bringing Our Bodies to the Light

Finding stories of Friends struggling with eating and body image.

Madeline Schaefer

Poetry

In Memoriam: Richard G. Bowie

FJ Poetry: "He woke all up to the cow's returning"

John McGonigle

Poetry

Don Out of Prison at Last

FJ Poetry: "He chose to sit on the steps…"

Phyllis Hoge Thompson

Poetry

Addendum

FJ Poetry: "It's been raining all morning…"

Lydia Caros

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…