Birthing Still

"Having not given birth to a child, / I have not held the echo of my husband’s smile…"

Sandra K. Olson

Among Friends

Wrestling with the Peace Testimony

Introduction to our August issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Do Friends Still Need the Peace Testimony?

Reclaiming the gospel power of the 1660 Declaration.

Adria Gulizia

Features

Rejecting the False Reality

A Recommitment to the Peace Testimony.

Patience A. Schenck

Features

Let Your Life Speak by Your Actions

David Lester on Illustrating Benjamin Lay’s Story.

John Malkin

Features

Loyalty and War

A Vet Confronts a Peace Activist.

George Lakey

Poetry

Labyrinth

"Take these rocks you’ve carried from forever / The ones that make your shoulders ache and tense…"

Melissa Foster

Forum

Forum, August 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

No Time but This Present

Where do we stand with our peace testimony?

Stephen Collett

Remembrance

Summers at Journey’s End Farm Camp

The author remembers formative summers growing up.

Naomi Bindman

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, August 2022

Scattergood Hostel: A Quaker response to the Holocaust.

Staff

News

Friends Academy students fold 2,977 peace cranes to honor 9/11 victims

In June, after ten months of folding origami paper cranes, students at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y., completed 2,977…

FJ News Editors

Images from three of the most widely read Friends Journal articles in the first six months of 2022.

Uncategorized

Our Top Five Articles for 2022 (So Far)

What's captured readers' attention in recent months?

FJ Editorial Staff

Features

Meeting for Business as Spiritual Rehearsal

How can we apply lessons from our worship in our decision making?

John Andrew Gallery

News

Inner Light Books joins Barclay Press

The operations of Quaker publishing house Inner Light Books will be carried on by Barclay Press following the retirement of…

FJ News Editors

News

19 Friends launch a call to action in response to threats to U.S. democracy

A nationwide group of Friends launched Quaker Call to Action, “an invitation to a national dialogue on the urgent threats…

FJ News Editors

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…