The Law, Grace, and Homosexuality

There are two radically different ways of reading the Bible; we can approach it under the Law or under Grace.…

Edward Elder

Q&A: Peggy Brick

In the 1970s, the sexual revolution was challenging traditional sexual values and I was invited to develop full-year psychology and…

Jana Llewellyn

Departments

Film Review: The Sessions

In one memorable scene from The Sessions, Father Brendan (played by William H. Macy) reflects during confession, “It’s amazing how…

Reviewed by Jana Llewellyn

Forum, February 2013

The value of silence I very much enjoyed the latest issue on hospitality (FJ, December 2012), and especially Terry Miller’s…

Staff

Features

Healing Touch

The power of love and hands in a hospital room.

Joy Belle Conrad-Rice

Features

A Clerk’s Lesson from Occupy

A meeting makes quick decisions and learns to more fully trust Quaker process.

Robert W. Hernblad

Necessary, Not Evil

Abortion and the Stewardship Testimony A pro-choice friend of mine once remarked that she thought of abortion as a necessary…

Benjamin P. Brown

Features

Cultivating a Vision

A Conversation with New Mexico Farm Activist Don Bustos Don Bustos is a New Mexican farmer who has helped build a…

Lucy Duncan

Features

Are Quakers Christian, Non-Christian, or Both?

Theological diversity challenges us to transcend differences.

Anthony Manousos

Thomas Hamm on Division in Indiana

To someone who is not familiar with the controversy in Indiana Yearly Meeting, what would be your synopsis of the…

Staff

A Farewell to FJ’s Art Director, Barbara Benton

You’ve been art director at Friends Journal for more than 35 years. What are the most notable changes from when…

Staff

Carolyn Miller: A Woman for All Seasons

Carolyn Miller is a tall, slim woman, with sparkly blue eyes, short silvery hair and a stately bearing. For more…

Susan Hallett and Karen L. Cadbury

A Holy Place

Many years ago, I found myself driving a long distance with a woman from my office. I didn’t know her…

Debby Churchman

Privilege and the Re-Inauguration of President Obama

“With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With…

Jana Llewellyn

Online Features

A New Year’s top five: The most read articles of 2012

We've been sharing our most-read articles of 2012 on Facebook and Twitter. Here they are along with highlights from the issues in which they originally appeared.

Staff

Among Friends: The Ultimate Privilege: How Shall We Use It?

The Ultimate Privilege: How Shall We Use It?

Gabriel Ehri

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…