Practicing Steadfastness

When I ask myself, ‘What is devotion?’I find that my answers are all verbs: to kneel and kiss the ground, and then rise…

Lisa Lundeen

Poetry

The Leader

He comes The Leader with much applause / and turning of heads and scraping / and bring out the candles and celebrity damask!

Nancy Thomas

Poetry

The Dreams that Shake Me Awake

FJ Poetry: ”How might I name the thunder / rumbling inside the landscape of my heart”

Michael S. Glaser

Forum

Forum, March 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, March 2022

The Listening Project revealed the problems caused when Friends go out of their way to avoid conflict.

Staff

Online Features

Quaker Slavery and Manumissions

A talk with Quaker preservationist Avis Wanda McClinton.

Martin Kelley

Poetry

Some Days

Some days I want to tell the newscasters I don’t want to know about the brown-eyed little girl missing from her home in Chicago…

Colette Tennant

Among Friends

A Swiss Army Knife for Quakers

Introduction to our February issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

At Home in the World

The Dignity of Living Faith in Action

Andrew Huff

Features

Grieving as a Spiritual Practice

Using meditation and prayer to understand God’s offerings.

Barbara Bennett

Features

Inside Haverford’s Manumission Archives

An interview with Mary Crauderueff and David Satten-López.

Martin Kelley

Features

How to Retain Young Families in Quaker Meeting

Families want to be an important and integral part of the community.

Ami Corleto-Bales, Christine Barnaby, David Corleto-Bales, David Keiser-Clark, Janaki Spickard Keeler, Kat Griffith, and Maya Wright

Online Features

To Lovingly Cease

Navigating the transition of Friends ministers.

Robert Henry

Poetry

The Second Blizzard

"At the supermarket, a friend stopped to talk about his flight back to the island…"

Joan MacIntosh

Poetry

Dinner in Westport

"For dinner this evening / I’ll take the Serrano ham and sheep cheese…"

Peter Moretzsohn

Forum

Forum, February 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

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…