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Allen’s Neck Meeting Clambake Celebrates 125 Years

A century's-worth of adaptations in a Quaker meeting's summer celebration inadvertently documents ecosystem change. With podcast, author chat, and additional photos.

Joseph E. Ingoldsby

To Be Useful with Proper Concern

Inspiration in a family history of being "useful" and "worthy."

Jeremy Evans

A Portrait of Two Founders

I earnestly believe our Society will serve the Kingdom [of God] better as we are unified. —J. Passmore Elkinton, in…

Steven Elkinton

Christmas Eve Comments: Why Egypt?

In November 2008, before our communal Christmas cards were displayed at Friends Homes at Guilford, our Art Gallery wall carried…

OTheodorBenfey

Racial exploitation revealed in the Rowntree company’s past

On April 15 the Rowntree Society announced that its preliminary investigations into the Rowntree company’s historic global supply chains have…

FJ News Editors

God Still Speaks to the Quakers

A group of activists from many faith traditions work together to protest drone warfare.

John Amidon

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

By Peniel E. Joseph. Basic Books, 2020. 384 pages. $30/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Living through a historic era is no guarantee…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison

By Joshua Dubler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 375 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Joshua Dubler spent one year in Pennsylvania’s…

Reviewed by William and Pat Mueller

Ohio Yearly Meeting Gathering and Quaker Spring

A Philadelphia Friend finds spiritual renewal in fellowship with Conservative Quakers.

John Andrew Gallery, with comments by Susan Smith

Filming the Life of Gobi Women

Leading, 1997 As I sit in meditation, I see single women lliving a nomadic life—women using wool from their sheep…

Sas Carey