Providing a Warm Welcome

My husband, Adam, and I were blessed to serve as co-directors of Powell House, New York Yearly Meeting’s retreat and…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Vibrant Meetings Grow the Religious Society of Friends

In 2007, Friends World Committee for Consultation reported 35,413 unprogrammed Friends, about one-tenth of 1 percent of the U.S. population.…

Lynn Fitz-Hugh

Young Families and Quakerism: Will the Center Hold?

Recently I was invited to help plan an adult religious education session at a meeting that expressed interest in revitalizing…

Tom Hoopes

Kindling a Spark: Young Friends Voicing a Need for a Radical, Spiritual Quakerism

You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. . .…

Anna Obermayer

Immigration and Friends Testimonies: Seeing That of God in Our Immigrant Neighbors

Friends have been concerned about the exploitation and dehumanization of workers for many years, most notably in our opposition to…

Danielle Short

Life and Work at the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City

A year and a half ago, in the fall of 2006, the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City celebrated…

Stephen Snyder

Supporting Tribal Community Development Loan Funds

One of the moral dilemmas facing many Friends and others in our relations with Native American tribes is how we…

Tom Ewell

Quaker Relief during the Spanish Civil War

One gray morning in early February, a small group of Friends was finding its way to an encounter with 70…

Gerard Negelspach

Harry's Light

The diagnosis came into our world shattering our stability, our plans, and our future. The gentle, soft-spoken doctor explained to…

Dorsy Hill

Visiting Agatha

I was an untrained amateur leading a self- help group for the mentally ill. Statistics were grim: in my first…

Mariellen O. Gilpin

Northern Uganda: The Peace Process and the International Criminal Court

The 20-year rebellion in northern Uganda has killed tens of thousands and laid waste to a generation that has scarcely…

Michael Bartlet

Jesus: What Does He Matter?

Jesus’ name is not commonly spoken among unprogrammed, liberal Friends (at least not those I am familiar with), and it…

Mary Kay Glazer

Pile It On! Stuff and a Spiritual Journey

Sometimes a strong image will appear to me during meeting for worship. About two years ago I had a very…

Robin Magee

The Goodwill Store

Some years ago The New Yorker magazine published a cartoon of a man standing at his front door. Speaking over…

Yvonne Boeger

Parable of the Enemies

Two men were summoned before God. With eyes downcast they were told the following: "You each have an enemy who…

Wayne H. Swanger

Bearing Witness with Their Lives

We have an occasional department in Friends Journal called "Witness," in which reports and reflections on individual actions taken are…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

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…