All Walls Come Down

Where Physics and Spirituality Overlap.

David Castro

Features

Vessels of Honor in the House of God

A Letter to Samuel Fothergill.

Elaine Green

Features

Confessions of a Reluctant Quaker Treasurer

A Friend finds himself in an unexpected role.

Michael Sperger

Features

Coming Home to Silence

The Paradox of Quaker Worship.

Stanford Searl

Features

The Mystical Experience

Reclaiming a Neglected Quaker Tradition.

Donald W. McCormick

Poetry

Six Poems

Poems by recognized poet and clerk of Cuba Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Jorge Luis Peña Reyes

Forum

Forum, August 2021

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Life in the Meeting

Pandemic Discoveries

Reflections on the year with queries addressing unexpected joys, things we learned, and something new we tried during the year.

Mary Ann Downey

Reflection

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

You never know who you’ll run into in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.

George Lakey

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, August 2021

Have you seen the one about the difference between a welcoming and an inclusive space? Friends Lisa Graustein, Anthony Kirk,…

Staff

News

Gretchen Castle Becomes ESR Dean

Gretchen Castle becomes the first female dean of the Earlham School of Religion (ESR) with the beginning of her term…

FJ News Editors

News

Quaker Organizations Launch Racial Justice Initiative

On June 16, 2021, a coalition of four Quaker organizations announced a new initiative, Quakers Uprooting Racism, designed ”to accelerate…

FJ News Editors

News

Diane Randall to Leave Friends Committee on National Legislation

Diane Randall will leave her post as general secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) at the end of…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

Prophetic Quaker Communities

Introduction to our June-July issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

A Utopia in Progress

Communal life at Beacon Hill Friends House

Jennifer Newman and Nils Klinkenberg

Features

Utopia Before the Quakers

Thomas More and the Prophetic Purpose of Community

Derek Brown

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…