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Melinda Wenner Bradley

Becoming One Flesh

In the Christian tradition there is a persistent notion that sex is shameful, or at best a necessary evil. This…

New Paths in Later Life

When I retired from being an attorney, I wanted to start a new life of service. I first became interested…

Drone Warfare

I was part of a delegation to Pakistan in October 2012 to address the issue of United States drone warfare.…

Reimagining a Yearly Meeting

Indiana Yearly Meeting has recently split, and we’re in the early stages of setting up a new association of Friends.…

Q&A: Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun magazine, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., and…

Interview with Ashley Merryman

Co-author of Nurtureshock Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have been making a lot of waves in the past two years…

FJ Interview with Gretchen Castle

This week Gretchen Castle attended the inaugural mass of Pope Francis as the Quaker representative on the Christian World Communion. We caught up with her a few days later and talked about the inauguration, her role in the Christian World Communion, and the changes facing our denominations.

FJ Interview with Al Vernacchio

Al Vernacchio’s article, “Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality” appears in the March 2013 issue of Friends Journal. Al teaches sexuality…

Quaker attender Charles Murray shocks national conservatives

The New Yorker reports that prominent libertarian author Charles Murray shocked attendees at the conservative CPAC conference on Friday when…

Among Friends: How Friends Journal is Funded

A letter from the Friends Journal executive director.

Forum March 2013

Letters from our readers.

Friends Schools and Healthy Sexuality

Discussing sexuality in the Quaker classroom.

Loving the Difficult People

Tales from a Phone Sex Operator

Toward a Testimony of Intimacy

Let’s face it: we don’t like to talk about sex. Most people don’t, but Quakers are especially reluctant. We also need to face this: some Quakers are certain homosexuality is a sin, and others are just as sure it is not. How can each side be so certain, however, if none of us wants to talk about sex?

From a Quaker View of Sex

Quick! Name the most influential document published by British Quakers in the twentieth century. It’s probably a 1963 pamphlet entitled…

Bringing Sexual Abuse to Light

A meeting learns to be supportive in the wake of sexual abuse.

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