Interpreters

Hail! Loquacious band of jolly, global interpreters, language servants of assemblies, listeners of all languages and accents, serving diplomats, delegates,…

Heberto Sein

Poetry

Listen Deep

I grew up in the wake of a wild and crazy sister. Raised not to rock the boat, I dared…

Alice Carlton

Online Features

God in Translation

A change in language brings a Friend closer to the Spirit.

Kat Griffith

Online Features

Translating Quaker Texts into Russian

Sharing Quakerism through the written word.

Natalia Zhuravenkova and Sergei Grushko

Online Features

Imperfect Interpretation in Community

A community commitment to translation requires sharing the work among many people.

Heather Gosse

Online Features

Intercultural Communication among Friends

It was the spring of 1987. I had recently moved to the Philadelphia suburbs and had started attending Gwynedd (Pa.)…

Vicki Hain Poorman

Forum

Forum, November 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, November 2020

Have you seen the one featuring Avis Wanda McClinton and the garden she created? She started it during the COVID-19…

Staff

News

Brooklyn Friends School withdraws NLRB petition, ending strike

On the evening of Wednesday, October 7, Crissy Cáceres, the head of Brooklyn Friends School (BFS) in Brooklyn, N.Y., announced…

FJ News Editor

Among Friends

Trust the Process

Our introduction to the October 2020 issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Separated Worship

The lockdown helps a Friend expand her notion of worship.

Ellen McBride

Features

Healing the Shadow of Racism

Looking for hope in this moment of history.

Lynn Peery Mills

Features

Process or Faithfulness

Finding a sense of the meeting through the Living Presence.

Michael Wajda

Features

Careful Discernment or Spiritual Timidity?

Why do we assume the Spirit works at a slow, deliberate pace?

Kat Griffith

Features

The Middle-class Capture of Quakerism and Quaker Process

A conversation with George Lakey.

Donald W. McCormick

Poetry

Support Committee for a Quaker Friend, Elected to Public Office

—for Kathleen Kelly Outside the meeting, the usual mutter: wordword wordword word wordity…

Alexander Levering

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…