Among Friends: Getting Over Ourselves

Our introduction to the March 2020 issue.

Martin Kelley

Thou Shalt Wear Comfy Shoes

Do our attitudes toward formal dress push people out the door?

Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan

In Defense of Blue Kool-Aid

An exploration of food culture among Friends.

Kat Griffith

Features

The Next Testimony

Can Friends model a new kind of Christian governance?

Andrew Huff

Features

How to Be an Inclusive Quaker

The unwritten norms of speech and silence.

Valerie Brown

Features

Uncertainty, an Unnamed Quaker Creed?

Moving beyond belief in the "absolute perhaps."

Rhiannon Grant

Features

When Is a Creed Not a Creed?

Revisiting that of God in every man.

Ann Birch

Poetry

River Crossing

FJ Poetry: "Sitting in bed she gazes at the river, …"

Anne Maren-Hogan

Somewhere in This Large Field

FJ Poetry: "Somewhere in this large field…"

David Black

Forum, March 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Faith and Practice

What Did Easter Mean to Early Quakers?

Early Friends’ understanding of the resurrection was colored by their experience of the presence of God in their midst.

David K. Leonard

Lives of Friends

The Legacy and Philanthropy of Anna Thomas Jeanes

Examining the life of a relatively unknown yet visionary nineteenth-century Quaker philanthropist.

Kay Sackett Fitzgerald and Eleanor Reinhardt

News

Visa denials impact Scattergood Friends School

Scattergood Friends School has a long history of welcoming international visitors, most notably serving as a hostel for refugees from…

FJ News Editor

News

Viral coming-out video raises LGBTQ issues at George Fox University

Reid Arthur, a senior theater major at George Fox University (GFU) in Newberg, Ore., was already out as gay to…

FJ News Editor

QuakerSpeak, March 2020

Many Quakers feel called to action, but are unable to bring their ideas to fruition. Learn how five young adult Friends were able to make their leadings a reality.

Staff

Among Friends: An Openness to Being Taught

Our introduction to the February 2020 issue.

Gabriel Ehri

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…