Questioning Our Authority

Introduction to our February issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

The Day I Removed the Meeting for Worship Clock

Protecting sacred silences from incessant tick tocks.

Amos Smith

Features

Dipped in God and Covered in Grace

Thoughts on liturgy for unprogrammed Friends.

Kat Griffith

Features

A Witness to Tethers and Transformation

Observations from 16 yearly meetings.

Allison Kirkegaard and Cai Quirk

Features

How to Be a Warrior for Childhood

Leaving time for curiosity, joy, and imagination.

Jennifer Arnest

Features

Dandelions and Domination

Learning when to live with the weeds.

Pamela Haines

Features

Hospice Stories on Living and Healing

Lessons for keeping hope alive and staying open to mystery.

Cynthia Knowles

Poetry

Repair

When a treasured tea bowl shattered,the kintsugi master glued the fragmentswith a paste of lacquer mixed with powdered gold.The lacquer…

Richard Schiffman

Poetry

From the Journal of Abial Folger (19th C)

This daysixteen yearsagoI stepped my feeton Welsh land and a grievousdayit was to me All the companywho were sointimate …

Christopher Snook

Poetry

Raised Bed

“Everyone thought I’d be the first to go”He said through a little gadget the size of his old Lucky’s. It…

Geoff Knowlton

Forum

Forum, February 2021

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Reflection

Becoming Sturdy

Becoming sturdy in the unstable soil requires the strength from our bones.

Kaylee Berg

Witness

Young Friends Worldwide Organize for Climate Justice

Young Friends around the world have been meeting online to consider climate action, peace, and justice.

Susanna Mattingly

Viewpoint

Debt and the Pandemic

There is a need to reconsider the system of money creation in the light of history and current needs.

John N. Howell

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, February 2021

Have you seen the one of four Friends explaining why they choose plain dress today? It was our most popular…

Staff

News

New Quaker House at Chautauqua

A new Quaker House is scheduled to open at the Chautauqua Institution in the summer of 2021, dependent upon COVID-19…

FJ News Editor

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…