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

Earthcare

14 Community-Focused Ways Quaker Meetings Can Steward Their Land

The following list accompanies "Coming Home to Land Restoration" article.

Paige Menton

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, June-July 2022

As a gay African American, Quaker civil rights activist, Bayard Rustin faced discrimination his entire life.

Staff

Online Features

Our Friends Are Not Just Humans

We share the same brain as the iguana with the same gifts and liabilities.

Jakob Doors

News

Scattergood-style hostel launches in Germany for Ukranian refugees

When Ukrainian war refugees began to appear in central Germany in February, Bad Langensalza resident Michael Luick-Thrams had a plan.…

FJ News Editors

Uncategorized

10 Picture Books about Family That Should Be in Every Quaker Meeting’s Library

These picture books have all been reviewed by Friends Journal, and they are ones I believe belong in every meetinghouse…

Eileen Redden

News

Swastikas spray-painted at Haddonfield Meeting’s graveyard

On the morning of Friday, April 1, members of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting discovered two swastikas spray-painted on trees located on…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

The Long Work of Climate Activism

Introduction to our May issue.

Martin Kelley

Liz Oppenheimer on Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

I appreciated the article about Friends’ responses to Operation Metro Surge. There were of course other…
George Busolo Lukalo on Making My Life a Testimony

So amazing being a Quaker. More to learn and live as a Quaker is my desire….
John Newkirk on The Journey Back to God

First I am sorry for your loss and I would just like to say addiction is…
Nate on The Journey Back to God

Robin, that is a strong story, and I’m so glad you’re still here in the land…