The Meaning of Silent Worship

A Friend recently asked, "What does silent worship mean?" Silent worship is about making an opportunity for God. God makes…

Mariellen O. Gilpin

Speaking into the Silence

Sydney Chambers

In psychotherapy there is a technique we call "paradoxical intervention." It’s what we do when we tell a two-year-old who…

Ron McDonald

About ten years ago, West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting was shattered by a case of sexual harassment, where a respected member…

Joshua Brown

When a group of North Americans gather to make a decision, one of three processes is usually used: the autocratic,…

Matthias C. Drake

From 1975 to 1994 there were only two years when I was not involved in some kind of clerking responsibility…

Marjorie M. Anderson

How might Friends improve the spiritual discernment within their nominating committees? I posed this query to my interest group, “Nominating:…

Perry Treadwell

You have the right to take part in worship. All people are welcome to worship with us, regardless of age,…

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The retreat is summer camp for grownups in October. We meditate. We listen to deep wisdom. We walk mindfully. After…

Anne C. Highland

We were standing outside of the hearing room in the Capitol Annex waiting for it to become available. The wait…

Doug Stern

In June 2005, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting met in called session to consider its response to Earth-wide challenges of climate change.…

Peter Blood-Patterson

Friends Journal has been a steady companion on my spiritual journey since I began attending meeting over 35 years ago.…

Liz Yeats

A quiet phenomenon has been gathering steam in the midwest over the last few years: Quaker women, getting together across…

Gladys Tiffany

I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…

Thomas D. Hamm

As a student of print journalism, I am riveted by discussions around the detachment needed in balanced writing on any…

Rebecca Howe

I feel the need to speak up in response to Gracia Fay Ellwood’s article "Are Animals Our Neighbors" (FJ April).…

Heike-Marie Eubanks

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…