Five Spiritual Lessons on the Way to Tamilnadu

Lessons in the Spirit's mysterious ways learnt on a journey.

Linnea Wang

News of Friends September 2013

Retirement, appointment and honors

Staff

Reza Aslan, Fox News, and Jesus as violent revolutionary

Religion scholar Reza Aslan is author of a controversial new book "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth." He's a former intern at Friends Committee on National Legislation. Fox News and sometimes Quaker attender Stephen Prothero weigh in.

Martin Kelley

Forum: August 2013

Responses from our readers.

Staff

Features

Bringing Children to Worship: Trusting God to Take Over from There

Children in Quaker meeting for worship.

Kathleen Karhnak-Glasby

Features

We Think He Might Be a Boy

Raising a transgender child.

Su Penn

Among Friends

Among Friends, From the Art Director

Friends Journal's colorful future.

Gabriel Ehri and Alla Podolsky

A Garden for All Time

A parent shares the wonders beneath a garden's soil with his daughter.

Jeffrey Aaron

Features

A Midrash on Parenting

12-year-old Jesus "gets lost."

Ron Pudlo

Our Gift of Silent Worship

Our simple form of worship gives the Spirit room to communicate.

Ruth Lofgren

Features

New Meetings Project

FGC goes on the road to seed new worship groups.

Brent Bill

Features

The Golden Rule Shall Sail Again

Recovering a piece of nonviolent Quaker history.

Arnold (Skip) Oliver

R U Clerkn?

John Fuller

Epistle: From a Gathering on Religious Education

To Friends Everywhere: Ten Friends gathered from four yearly meetings and Friends General Conference with a concern for the state…

From a Gathering on Religious Education

Online Features

Around the Web: Quakers Respond to the George Zimmerman Verdict

Around the web and within communities of Friends, Quakers are responding to the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial, in which Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Gail Whiffen

Online Features

Seeking Salt and Light Among Friends

A video documentary of the Sixth World Conference of Friends

Dana Kester-McCabe

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…