Grief Manifesto: Linda Heacock’s Death As Told by Her Daughter

As I did some yard work for a friend, I found a dead bird in one of her beds. I…

Hannah Jeffrey

Empathy

I sit quietly in meeting for worship, envisioning the Light Within and knowing that I am being held very gently…

Lee Neff

The Christ Spirit and Forgiveness

In my religious tradition, that of the unprogrammed branch of the Religious Society of Friends, many feel comfortable because there…

Alicia Adams

Words, Silence, and the Body in Quaker Worship

I have loved the work of Rex Ambler, the English Quaker who has developed Experiment with Light groups, among other…

Stanford J. Searl

The Way We Sit in Meeting for Worship

Sitting is essential to life as a primate. The fact that we have the ischial tuberosity—the "sitz bone"—is perhaps as…

Zug James

My Trip to Kunduz

In the summer of 2009, I was given a grant by German Technical Corporation to conduct field research to gather…

Akbar Noorjahan

Resurrection for the Second Half of Life

There is a time in our lives when the future holds so much promise and mystery that the thought of…

Schultz Tim

Helping North Americans Experience Nicaragua

This year marks the 25 year anniversary of ProNica, and an important part of ProNica’s mission has always been to…

Kathy Hersh

A Friends Meeting Looks at Money and Time

Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting was truly inspired by the Friends Journal special issue on Friends and Money (July 2006). I…

Smathers Katrina

Quaker Earthcare Witness Mini-Grants

Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW)— with the help of many yearly meetings in North America as well as of individuals— works…

Hamilton Ruth

Quaker Education in Bolivia

The special October 2010 issue of FRIENDS JOURNAL on Friends and Education focuses usefully on Quaker schools in the United…

Newton Garver

On Not Becoming Complacent

Like many—if not most—emerging religious movements, Quakerism arose in 17th-century England in a posture of challenging the established authority. This…

Robert Dockhorn

Letter to a Friend reading Reinhold Niebuhr

A friend recently wrote that he had been reading essays that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote for various periodicals in the 1920s…

Newton Garver

The Immorality of Patriotism

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity only as we…

Tony White

Anthropology: Pursuing the Quaker Connection

As a graduate student in dance anthropology at London’s Roehampton University, I had my first mid-life crisis. Actually, make that…

Richter Kat

Education and Service Projects in Vietnam

The wounds of war do not go away when the fighting stops. Both the physical and emotional wounds persist for…

Marjorie E. Nelson

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…