Channeling Agape for Those on Their Final Journey

The power of using our pain in service to others.

Diane D’Angelo

Grounded in God

The fruits of spiritual surrender.

Michael Wajda

(Two Poems for Saint Thérèse of Lisieux)

FJ Poetry: "Kitchen. I peel back belief like the rings of an onion, …"

Sarah Law

So It Goes

FJ Poetry: "We advance in this life …"

Mary Timberlake

Forum, May 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

FGC cancels in-person 2020 Gathering, goes online

On March 23, Friends General Conference (FGC) announced that “after several meetings with a number of committee clerks, staff, and…

FJ News Editor

Denver meeting to house COVID-19 healthcare workers

On March 24, Mountain View Meeting, a meeting of about 100 in Denver, Colo., decided to open its meetinghouse…

FJ News Editor

Francisco Burgos named executive director of Pendle Hill

On March 30, the Pendle Hill Board of Directors announced that Francisco Burgos will become executive director of Pendle…

FJ News Editor

Online Features

Quaker Language in a Pandemic

Why use terms of war to describe our response to COVID-19?

Philip Harnden

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2020

It can be hard to find joy in a time of great uncertainty. Mosi Harrington shares the power of lightheartedness to help us get through dark times.

Staff

New England Yearly Meeting - During Plenary

Online Features

Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness

Special Web Feature: New England Yearly Meeting’s experiment with paying attention.

Lisa Graustein

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Carrying on with the care of our meetings.

Gabriel Ehri

The 2020 FGC Gathering Goes Online

A video interview with Friends General Conference staff and volunteers around the cancellation of the in-person 2020 Gathering.

Martin Kelley

Features

Wanted: A Network of Soul Connection

How do we build faith communities where we really know one another?

Francine Brocious

Features

Facing Hard Truths

What can Friends learn from the hospice movement?

Robin Mohr

Quaker Schools Transforming the World

Friends schools face the challenges of societal changes.

Deborra Sines Pancoe and Elisabeth Torg

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…