Sharing the Gifts of the Spirit

What Friends Have to Offer the Wider Church Silence washed over the hundreds of women and men gathered together in the…

Micah Bales

Introduction: New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore their Relationship with Friends United Meeting

A series on New England Yearly Meeting's discernment over the challenges of their relationship with Friends United Meeting, and with each other

Martin Kelley

Experiments in Faithfulness

In August, I traveled to Rhode Island to join Friends from New England Yearly Meeting at their annual sessions. New…

Gabriel Ehri

Renewing the Subscription

I have had a subscription to the Friends Journal for years, and sporadically found excellent articles in it. I liked…

Mary Ann Mays

New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore Their Relationship with Friends United Meeting

At its 2011 annual sessions in August, New England Yearly Meeting held a panel discussion to advance Friends’ discernment of…

Friends Journal Editors

I Beg Your Forgiveness

About two weeks ago I was at Indiana Yearly Meeting, where the main speaker was Jan Wood, who is well…

Eden Grace

Encouraging Each Other’s Faith and Truths

My thoughts about Friends United Meeting and its relationship with Friends in New England have changed a lot over the…

Hannah Zwirner

Love Is Rigorous

I am embarrassed but glad to confess that for many years now, a watchword for me has been the title…

Brian Drayton

God Has No Hands on Earth but Ours

I have always been Quaker, even before I really knew what that meant. I have been Quaker in my upbringing,…

Anne-Marie Witzburg

On Love

The Greek language has three words for the one English word "love." I do not read Greek, and although I…

John Andrew Gallery

Truth As a Moving Target On A Local Train

On a hot summer morning in July 1979, I was riding a local train from Geneva to Basel. Families, individuals,…

Richard M. Kelly

Remembering Elise Boulding: The Legacy of Her Journaling

Elise Boulding died on June 24, 2010, in Needham, Mass., just shy of her 90th birthday. Known for her accomplishments…

Mary Lee Morrison

It's a 15th-century Italian painting of the Magi on their way to visit the infant Christ.

Features

Faith of the Magi

Often overlooked in its importance, God’s revelation of Christ’s birth to the Magi is a significant theological event that provides…

Byron Anderson

Healing, and Bindweed

I’ve been thinking about healing, and about bindweed, recently. I have been mentally ill for 32 years. In the last…

Mariellen O. Gilpin

Extracting Truth from Power: A Tale of Two Quaker Ladies

In March, 1979, Beverly Hess of Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting, along with her husband Dick, was preparing to head to Philadelphia…

Robert Neuhouser

A Season for Reading and Gratitude

A good book review tells the reader what the subject is, and whether one might want to read it. A…

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…