The Importance of Noise During Silent Worship

Sometimes we need the buses, dogs, and loud neighbors to enter the deepest silence of the meetinghouse.

Ben Handy

In Which Today’s To-dos Become Ta-dahs!

A Friend’s attention to prayer life brings an easy order to life’s juggles.

Kat Griffith

Scenes from a Meetinghouse

The spirituality of doorknobs and staircases.

Gunilla Norris

Features

A Quaker Response to Gun Violence

A ministry born of family tragedy.

Peter Murchison

Features

The Land Remembers: Connecting with Native People through the Land

Connecting with Native peoples through the land.

Paula Palmer

Poetry

How to See

FJ Poetry: "I close my eyes in silence, …"

Alice Carlton

Poetry

Pine Ridge

FJ Poetry: "I was privileged,…"

Charlie Janney

Forum

Forum, February 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

February 2019

Meet Rebecca Hamilton-Levi, the new producer of QuakerSpeak

Rebecca joined the Friends Publishing team in December 2019, and will be taking on the duties of producing the QuakerSpeak video series.

Gail Whiffen

Earthcare

Extinction and Hope

Where is hope when one in eight species are threatened with extinction?

Judith Favor

News

English ecumenical group blocks Quaker in same-sex marriage from president position

Churches Together in England (CTE) announced on November 22, 2019, its decision to have British Quaker nominee Hannah Brock Womack…

FJ News Editor

Most-Read Articles of 2019

The Most Popular Articles of 2019

Staff

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, February 2020

What is God? We asked 20 Quakers, here’s what they said.

Staff

Blogs

Meet Rebecca Hamilton-Levi, the new producer of QuakerSpeak

Rebecca joined the Friends Publishing team in December 2019, and will be taking on the duties of producing the QuakerSpeak video series.

Gail Whiffen

Among Friends

Among Friends: Drugs, Brokenness, Violence, and Sin

Our introduction to the January Issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment

When can drugs bring us closer to God?

Joe McHugh

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…