What Would You Do If a Kid Threw a Fork on a Ten-Foot Roof?

Once, a devoted Quaker who works with the teens at Berea (Ky.) Meeting asked me the pointed question of why…

Maggie Hess

Sustainable Travel

Travel is an inescapable part of most people’s lives, and for many of us, work travel can be a big…

Steven Heywood

The Concord, A Story of Two Stamps

In July 1683, a ship named Concord sailed from London to America. The 33 passengers aboard were members of…

Charles Miller

The Incredible Misters Fox

I’ve been teaching drama at Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, D.C. since 1995. Like my brother and sister educators…

Timothy J. Reagan

Rising up: Ministry at the World Gathering of Friends

Ministry and silence delivered at the World Conference in Kenya

Ashley M. Wilcox

A Midlife Pilgrimage

At the close of my student year at Pendle Hill outside of Philadelphia—when I had the time and resources—I was sensitive…

Dyckman Vermilye

August 2012 Forum

VIEWPOINT: Feeding the World takes more than Backyard Gardens The main theme of the articles in May’s food issue is…

Martin Kelley

Meant to Be For Some Purpose

I was 47 when I drove four other rabbis in my teal Windstar minivan from Philadelphia to the Catskills for…

Jacob J. Staub

Quakers, Contemplative Activists

I didn’t start out a Quaker. I began as a Catholic, which in one respect is as far from Quakerism…

Charles Finn

A Friend Among the Sisters

A chronically ill Friend takes a vacation among the nuns

J.A. Kruger

Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology

I see two ways that Quakers and the larger church can move forward in the tension of unity and diversity:…

Andy Henry

Those Other Branch Quakers

“Be careful of those ‘other branch’ Quakers.” These words were spoken to me at a recent Wednesday evening Bible study by…

Rick Artzner

Where Do Friends Worship?

On February 20, 2011, there was two feet of snow on the ground in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Five people, dressed like…

Elizabeth Claggett-Borne

Understanding Ourselves, Respecting the Differences

Quakers sometimes view conflicts between the branches of our faith as trivial. These conflicts, however, express real differences, and we should…

Isabel Penraeth

The Covenant of Peace

What did Jesus mean by ‘the Kingdom of God’, or what the early Quakers called the ‘Covenant of Peace’? Though…

Gerard Guiton

Friends, Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interview with Doug Bennett

A video interview with Friends Journal author Doug Bennett. Bennett is President Emeritus of Earlham College and a member of…

Douglas C. Bennett

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…