Okay, Boomer, It’s Time to Fund Reparations

What are we willing to do to be antiracist?

Zona Douthit

Features

The Fiery Forge of Polarization

History shows that moments of political polarization are opportunities for change.

George Lakey

Poetry

Nona and the Polenta

—For Ian, Sadie, April: your great-grandmother’s story Lombardia was a banquet before the Germans carvedthe green hills with their black…

Suellen Wedmore

Poetry

Timing

Timing is everything, sages say Girls learn it as early as double-Dutch jump rope Your turn comes up, you wait,…

Nancy Morgan

Poetry

When They Ask You to Pray

When they ask you to praythey will, in most cases,bow their heads and close their eyesand wait. And they will…

Ken Gibble

Forum

Forum, September 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Witness

Ambassadors for Peace on a Global Stage

QUNO Reflects on 75 Years of the United Nations.

Andrew Tomlinson

Viewpoint

Anger in the Time of a Total Freaking Mess

In the past few months, I’ve seen the phrase “love in the time of coronavirus” a few times, and I…

Karie Firoozmand

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2020

“Being a Quaker makes me a better therapist and being a therapist makes me a better Quaker. Learning to see that of God in everyone helps me to sit in the distress that others might bring in so that I can show up in a more authentic, genuine way, willing to enter into those kind of dark, suffering spots that people bring into therapy.”

Staff

News

Guilford President replaced by interim

On August 1, Carol A. Moore became interim president of Guilford College, a school founded by Quakers in Greensboro, N.C.…

FJ News Editor

Online Features

Where Two or Three Are Gathered Online

Reflections on Worship and Decision Making in the Age of COVID-19 and Climate Change

Barry Crossno

Online Features

A Pentecostal Quaker’s Spiritual Journey

Reaching across race and faith to find fellowship.

Barbara Luetke

Among Friends

A Quaker’s Wanderlust

Our introduction to the August 2020 issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Our Balcony

Becoming aware of the commonplace miracles all around us.

Glenn Boylan

Features

The End of the Quaker Handshake?

The history and future of one of Friends’ most ingrained practices.

Stephen W. Angell

Features

An Online Lifeline for Friends of Color

Zoom during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Murder of George Floyd.

Vanessa Julye

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…