Allowable Diversions

A Friend explores the morality of hunting.

Timothy Tarkelly

Features

Who Gets to Be Safe?

Struggling to find unity on gun-free zones in a Texas meeting.

Katharine Jager

Features

Benjamin Lay’s Medicine

Healing our communities from White supremacy and slavery.

Lucy Duncan and Rob Peagler

Online Features

SPICES Testimonies and the Biblical Roots of Quakerism: Pointing to the Moon

SPICES testimonies and the biblical roots of Quakerism.

Gene Hillman

Poetry

Morning Prayer

While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark

Anne Maren-Hogan

Poetry

Hoeing an Apple Tree

To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future

Cynthia Gallaher

Glaciers (Removed)

“Glaciers” by John Kucera has been removed from the August 2023 online edition due to plagiarism. The actual author of…

John Kucera

Forum

Forum, August 2023

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Service

I Came to Serve

Quakers and Alternatives to Violence in Bolivia.

Magaly Quispe Yujra, with editorial support and translation from Barbara Flynn

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, August 2023

Healing from abuse in Quaker communities.

Christopher Cuthrell

FJ Report

Welcoming Worshipers by Adopting Trans-Affirming Minutes

Some U.S. Quakers have adopted minutes and official statements explicitly affirming transgender people.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Online Features

Sailing for Peace

Interviews with Caroline Wildflower and Helen Jaccard.

Sharlee DiMenichi

[Images from the most widely read articles of early 2023.]

Features

Our Top Five Articles for 2023 (So Far)

As we review some of the most widely read features at Friends Journal from January to June, we’d also like…

FJ Editorial Staff

Interview

Meet Christopher Cuthrell, the New Producer of QuakerSpeak

Christopher joined the Friends Publishing team in May, and is taking on the duties of producing the QuakerSpeak video series.

Gail Whiffen

News

Mid-Atlantic Quakers Form Regional Lobbying Organization

The group intends to advocate for tackling climate change.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Among Friends

Balancing Spirit and a Leadership of Experience

Introduction to our June-July issue.

Martin Kelley

Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…
Stephen on Lynette Love: Education and Empowerment in Post-Civil War America

What a powerful feature on Lynette Love! Your conversation in the Friends Journal shines a necessary…
Eve Gutwirtth on A People Who Dwell in the Living Stream

Silence is a sublime state that we westeners find difficult to achieve but I did a…