Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

A ninth-grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach.

Robert Stephen Dicken

Poetry

Communion

FJ Poetry: "Mean cheese bread / snuggly sandwiched into bags"

Nancy L. Bieber

Poetry

If I Had Grown In Some Generous Place

FJ Poetry: "If I had grown in some generous place—"

Kat Griffith

Forum November 2018

Letters from our readers and news from Friends Journal.

Staff

Grace Kyoko Noda

Noda—Grace Kyoko Noda, 98, on March 14, 2018, at her home in Davis, Calif., peacefully. Grace was born on January…

Staff

Uncategorized

6th Annual Student Voices Project

2018-2019 Theme: Friendly Competition? Now accepting submissions! Deadline is Feb 11, 2019.

Staff

October 2018 Full Issue Access

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

Staff

Our Treasure and Our Collective Heart

An introduction to the October issue on Meetings and Money.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Seeking Solid Ground in the Money Swamp

A Friends meeting looks beyond rainy days to build a better relationship with money.

Pamela Haines

Features

A Living Tension

Quaker values and money.

Jeffery W. Perkins

Features

Money as a Mutual Blessing

Moving from anxiety and greed to milk and honey.

Lola Georg

Poetry

The Many Ways the Light Gets In

FJ Poetry: "It was easy to judge those Jane Austen ladies / languishing all afternoon over embroidery"

Marion Goldstein

Poetry

The Problem with Theology

FJ Poetry: "The problem with theology / Is that I do not know"

Evan McManamy

Forum, October 2018

Letters from our readers.

Staff

News

News, October 2018

Departures from Wilmington Yearly Meeting; new head of Olney Friends School appointed.

Staff

Quaker Works Archives

Quaker Works October 2018

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations.

Staff

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…