January 2019 Full Issue Access

Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

Staff

A Cautious Hope

An introduction to the January 2019 issue, "A Racially Diverse Society of Friends?"

Martin Kelley

Features

Are We Ready to Make the Necessary Changes?

What barriers prevent a racially diverse Religious Society of Friends in the United States?

Vanessa Julye

Features

Building White Racial Stamina

The primary way to develop racial stamina is to wade or dive in.

Elizabeth A. Oppenheimer

Features

Greater Racial Diversity Requires Greater Theological Diversity

The early Friends have much in common with today's Black Americans.

Adria Gulizia

Features

Expectant Visions of a Christian Anarchist

Have Friends lost our willingness to be countercultural?

Zae Asa Illo

Features

We Are Not John Woolman

The prophetic agitator is remembered and spoken of years later; the people that wanted them gone are forgotten today.

Gabbreell James

Features

An Interview with the Co-clerks of Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force

Looking at Friends General Conference's work of racial self-examination.

Sharon Lane-Getaz, Justin Connor, and Martin Kelley

Online Features

The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society

How to move beyond denial and defensiveness when talking about race.

Viv Hawkins

To Our Readers

Notice to our subscribers.

Staff

Poetry

Sonnet for George Fox’s Margaret

FJ Poetry: I see you there in the new snow / Barefoot, afire with the Lord,

Jane Yolen

Forum January 2019

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Service

We Are but God’s Workers

An outdoor meeting takes up a new ministry that grows during the colder months.

Andrea Smith

Full Access

December 2018 Full Issue Access

Members can download the full PDF or read any article online (see links below). Features: The Continuing Revelation of My…

Staff

Among Friends

Not One Quaker Experience but Many

Among Friends: Our introduction to the December issue on Quakers and Christianity.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity

The diversity within Quakerism and Christianity can reveal additional windows into the Divine.

Lauren Brownlee

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…