Recently I was asked to provide a six-word autobiography. I chose: "Child of God, Wife, Mother, Friend." Had I been…

Commuting from the northeast suburbs of Philadelphia, I have close to 40 minutes each direction of undisturbed time (thanks to…

“I was about eight years old, and it seemed kind of bizarre,” remembered Kathy Nicholson Paulmier, a Quaker and teacher…

Three memories from the time when I was about ten are swirling together in the same container. In the first,…

I have always been drawn by the words of George Fox, recorded in his Journal, refusing the commissioners’ request of…

Bright orange passion fruits hang from vines that cover most of a stuccoed stone wall and creep over the edges…

This November, Twin Cities Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, approved a minute stating that our meeting will no longer perform…

As a part of the administrative team here at Friends Journal, I don’t always have the opportunity to read and…

I was deeply disturbed by last year’s revealing back and forth between the ads from Friends Witness for a Pro-Life…

Many of the world’s faiths and religious organizations make faith-based eating easy for their believers: Don’t eat pork. Don’t eat…

Ethical Decision-Making in Risk Environments The rise of complex technologies has thrown ethical decision making for a loop. The risk…

An old controversy among Friends resurfaced this summer on the online Quaker Outreach Forum on Yahoo Groups. One member posted…