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

Features

Are We Really Christian?

Do we focus on the religiosity or the spirituality of our Quakerism?

Margaret Namubuya Amudavi

Features

Inward Power

Continuing revelation implies we are continuing from somewhere.

Gene Hillman

Features

God, Jesus, Christianity, and Quakers

A nontheist Friend on the role of Jesus and Christianity in his life.

Jim Cain

Features

Understanding Belief

Magical thinking, non-belief, and respecting others' paths.

Elizabeth Boardman

Features

A Consideration of Metaphors

Our spiritual metaphors can help us experience the truth from different perspectives.

Rhiannon Grant

Features

A Space for Doubt

When religious services are stripped of doctrinal claims, doubters and skeptics can participate with greater integrity.

Jeff Rasley

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…