Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness

FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. / We are bare and new in this western light, / shining and shone on.

Anne Myles

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Among Friends

Keeping It Real, Quaker Style

Among Friends: our introduction to the September issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

Contempt Is a Bitter-Tasting Word

Rebuilding community among people who do not agree.

J.E. McNeil

Features

Life in a Box

The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.

Andrew Huff

Features

Gota de Leche

The yellowing pages of 80-year-old AFSC relief pamphlets inspire a new sense of agency.

Camilla Meek

Features

Making Sense of the Starbucks Incident

Quaker values do not need to be mere theoretical ideas.

Ankita Achanta

Features

A Quaker Perspective on Hope

Hopelessness and burnout lead a Friend to rediscover an archaic form of hope.

Kate Davies

Features

Prophetic, Persistent, Powerful

Friends Committee on National Legislation at 75

Bridget Moix

Forum

Forum, September 2018

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Top Ten Quaker Bestsellers 2018

Popular books at the 2018 FGC Gathering

Staff

News

News, September 2018

Alan Price resigns as Earlham College President; Baltimore Yearly Meeting approves minute on transgender rights

Staff

Poetry

It’s What I Do

FJ Poetry: Oh God, I tend to grasp…

Leslie Smith Townsend

Online Features

Planning for a Trending #Quakers

Finding today’s lost sheep in a Twitter feed.

Josephine Posti

Online Features

Civility Can Be Dangerous

In 1934, AFSC co-founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?

Lucy Duncan

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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…