Greetings from Meeting House Road

A Quaker Welcomes Accidental Tourists in Sandy Spring, Md.

James Lehman Jr.

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, February 2022

Author Linda Seger reflects on the places where creativity and spirituality meet.

Staff

News

AFSC fires Director of Friends Relations following public criticism of restructuring plan

On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Western Friend published an open letter written by AFSC Director of Friends Relations Lucy Duncan…

FJ News Editors

News

ESR launches Congregational Leadership Center

Earlham School of Religion (ESR), with a million-dollar grant from the Lilly Endowment, is establishing the Quaker Center for Transformational…

FJ News Editors

News

Guilford College reaches fundraising goal

On December 16, 2021, Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., announced that it had reached its goal to raise $6 million.…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

Heroes and Role Models

Introduction to our January issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Flawed Quaker Heroes

Questioning the Narrative of William Penn

Kathleen Bell

Features

Significant Silence

The Fellowship of Early American Black Quakers

Ean High

Features

The Life and Conduct of Elise Boulding

Peace Activist, Social Scientist, Global Citizen

Barbara M. Birch

Features

A Hoosier in Ramallah

Annice Carter's Life in Service

Max L. Carter

Features

What Makes a Quaker Hero?

Powering Up the Next Generation

Stuart E.W. Smith

Online Features

Jim Corbett, Smuggler for the Kingdom of Love

A profile of the Quaker immigration activist.

Kathy Hersh

Online Features

Rethinking William Penn

A Path to Retrospective Justice

Trudy Bayer

Poetry

Monument

"Your eyes are cells of shadow. / Your hands are empty…."

Anne Myles

Poetry

Lifeline

"It was the little old ladies in tennis shoes / who saved my life when I was young.…"

Pamela Haines

Poetry

These Times

"These times have left us nothing to defend, / And Rigel arcs its way into the night. . . ."

Charles Thomas

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…