Selecting a Committee Clerk

Over the years in the life of monthly meetings in which I have participated, it has been a usual practice…

Margery Mears Larrabee

Douglas Steere: The Mystical in the Everyday

A conviction has slowly grown upon me over the years that Douglas Steere is the most sustaining of 20th century…

Brian Drayton

Spirituality and Politics

There has been discussion among Friends about the role of political and other worldly concerns in the life of the…

Arden Buck

Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller

In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…

Ann Walton Sieber

Nudges and Leadings

The interior presence of Christ moved within us and centered and renewed our dispersed lives and from time to time…

Marguerite Reiss Kern

The Sabbath Year at Central Philadelphia Meeting

“The Sabbath year has been unfolding so wonderfully. . . . I feel like we are growing and sprouting individually…

Patricia McBee

Experiences with Sabbath and Jubilee Years

Over time, the vitality of a Quaker meeting will naturally ebb and flow. Friends tend to measure a meeting’s vitality…

Laura Melly

Travel as Sacred Journey

As Quakers, we are called to see that of God in each person. And what if the person is the…

Valerie Brown

The WTO Meeting in Cancun: Failure or Success?

The Quaker Presence in Cancún In September 2003, thousands of government officials from 148 countries descended on the Mexican beach…

Phillip Berryman

In the Wake of Hurricane Isabel

The most powerful experience I had on a Friends Disaster Service (FDS) trip to Hyde County, N.C., was also the…

Evan Welkin

An Unprogrammed Friend Discovers the Spirit in Preaching

For most of my life as an unprogrammed Friend, I could never have imagined my present job title. I am…

Chris Parker

Seeking Common Ground

Four years ago, when the new millennium began, our future seemed challenging but also promising. In 2001, the events of…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Building Community under Fire

To understand the Friendly testimonies, including equality, simplicity, and community, it is important to get to know some of the societies that have developed to put these ideals into daily practice, and the struggles that have developed to defend these societies.

Friends Journal contributor

Making Peace: Telling Truth

From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…

Paul A. Lacey

See No Evil

Before I tell you that I don’t see anything to be gained using the word "evil" to describe any part…

Donna Glee Williams

With Malice toward None, Charity toward All

For a while after Jack Powelson’s article entitled "Why I am Leaving Quakers" (FJ April 2002) came out, a number…

Anna Poplawska

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…