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

Among Friends

Speaking Spirit’s Words

Introduction to our June-July issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Utterly Naked Before God

Creating a Container for Vocal Ministry

Christopher Sammond

Poetry

Finding God

“God is everywhere but He is losing.”—Margaret Atwood

Ed Higgins

Features

God’s Voice in the Chaos

Staying Centered in the Occasional Bedlam of a Busy Meeting.

J. E. McNeil

Features

The Ministry of Listening

Are you ready?

Paul Buckley

Features

Not Quite Ministry

The Pros and Cons of Afterwords

Rhiannon Grant

Features

Entering Contemplative Worship

What Makes a Gathered Meeting?

Sheldon H. Clark

Features

A Bargain with the Giver

Receiving and Delivering Messages during Worship

Edna Whittier

Online Features

Love New Friends but Keep the Old

Good works and a Higher Power.

John Pitts Corry

Poetry

Saint Paul Meets a Quaker Lady

FJ Poetry: ”In the fulness of personal time…”

Nancy Thomas

Poetry

Summer Sky

FJ Poetry: “News came / of your death, and the summer sky / dissolved to black…”

Elizabeth Corse

Poetry

After They Bombed the Maternity Ward

FJ Poetry: “Light is birthed in the hospital basement…”

Tamara Kreutz

Forum

Forum, June/July 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

Messages of Peace in Times of War

Building the peaceable kingdom.

Tim Gee

Earthcare

Coming Home to Land Restoration

A Friend returns to her hometown to talk earthcare.

Paige Menton

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