The Bridge of Friendship

What does it really mean to be a Friend?

Jack Ciancio

Online Features

Integrity in the Time of Overshoot

Acknowledging Our Participation in the Industrialized World.

Ashley Macmillan and Grant Galbreath

Online Features

Sacred Space

Supporting Spiritual Gifts Informed by Oppression.

Thistle Hofvendahl and Diego Navarro

Poetry

Acer Macrophyllum

FJ Poetry: “The moment of detachment, petiole from stem, goes unnoticed…”

Linda Phillips

Poetry

The Cyclist

FJ Poetry: “For twenty years I’d see her on her bike…”

Karen Kilcup

Poetry

In the City of the Dead

FJ Poetry: “On the way to the airport, I left the pair of Keens you bought me…”

Holly Iglesias

Forum

Forum, October 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Divine Creative Guidance and the Body

To truly know Spirit I need to admit the physicality of divine guidance.

Jesse White

Quaker Works Archives

Quaker Works October 2022

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.

Quaker Works

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, October 2022

On Quaker Deathways

Staff

Poetry

The Day After

"The morning after the storm / small clusters of maple leaves / scatter over the yard. It must / have been some wind. . ."

Mary Jean Port

Online Features

You Are the Light of the World

In community we can equip ourselves to be not only the Quakers the world needs but the Friends that the earth needs, too.

Tim Gee

Among Friends

An Invitation to See Deeply

Introduction to our September issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

No Words

I don’t think there’s a particular kind of Quaker artist. I have encountered some artists whose practice and work are…

Sasha Chavchavadze

Features

Three paintings

Ocean of Infinite Light and Love, Transformation in Waiting, and Iris Sing My type of painting comes from tapping into…

Carol Cober

Features

The Absence of Art or the Art of Absence?

Is it even possible, in this era, to be Quakers if our minds are filled with alluring images?

Keith Barton

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…