A Glimpse of Heaven on Earth

The First Quaker Communities

Stuart Masters

Features

The Land Is Free to All

Hicksite Friends and the Government of God

Thomas D. Hamm

Features

Hill of Vision

The Modern Community of Bryn Gweled

Robert Dockhorn

Online Features

Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Utopia

"Sometimes I forget how much Virginia Woolf is one of us."

Diane Reynolds

Poetry

The Roses

"Beyond the wall the distant roses shone, / the roses not their roses, not their own…"

Paul Willis

Poetry

Right Plant, Right Place

Since we chose our seeds / to cast upon rocky soil, / let's not blame the ground.

Margaret Fisher

Poetry

If You Can’t Love an Ordinary Bird

"If you can’t love an ordinary bird, / a cardinal, for example, on a branch…"

Neil Kennedy

Forum

Forum, June-July 2021

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Viewpoint

Transformative Return for Quaker Communities

What if there is no going back?

Keira Wilson

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, June-July 2021

“Revelation doesn’t have anything to do with predicting the end of the world,” explains C. Wess Daniels.

Staff

News

Racial exploitation revealed in the Rowntree company’s past

On April 15 the Rowntree Society announced that its preliminary investigations into the Rowntree company’s historic global supply chains have…

FJ News Editors

News

William Penn’s name removed from room in London’s Friends House

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) announced on April 10, “In a step towards becoming an actively anti-racist church, Quakers will cease…

FJ News Editors

News

Retired military as possible faculty sparks controversy at Swarthmore College

A partnership that could place and subsidize the salary of a retired military officer as college teaching faculty drew fire…

FJ News Editors

News

Lehigh Valley Friends start bail fund

In the summer of 2020, Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., started a fund to provide bail for people who…

FJ News Editors

Among Friends

With Attention to Truth

Introduction to our May issue.

Gail Whiffen

Student Voices Project 2021

The Hard-won Wisdom I Have Earned

The class of 2027 gathered anxiously in the 5B homeroom.

Awaliyat Oyenuga

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…