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

Life in the Meeting

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

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…