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Author Paul Buckley reads “Why Quakers Stopped Voting”

FJ Podcast: In 1762, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting approved a minute stating: “Liberty of conscience being . . . essential to the well-being of religious societies, we . . . therefore advise and exhort all in profession with us, to decline the acceptance of any office or station in civil government, the duties of which are inconsistent with our religious principles.”

Paul Buckley

Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

Gathering Prayer

A prayer from the FGC Gathering

Paul Buckley

Why Quakers Stopped Voting

Friends have long wrestled with the moral implications of voting.

Paul Buckley

Inward Light and Outward Light

When people get together for a business meeting in a non-Quaker setting, they analyze each problem, share the best solutions…

Paul Buckley

The 2008 Subscriber Survey

In October 2008, a sample of 2,000 current Friends Journal subscribers received a questionnaire in the mail. The purpose of…

Paul Buckley

The Declaration of 1660

Several years ago, a local television station set up a table in a shopping mall and asked people to sign…

Paul Buckley

Elias Hicks, Environmentalist

Elias Hicks is best known among Friends as the man for whom one branch of Quakers was named following the…

Paul Buckley

The Temptation to Do Something: A Quietist Perspective

Many people think that Quietists were people who liked quiet, and that the Quietist period in Quaker history was so…

Paul Buckley

Genesis 1.0

In the beginning, it was a two-day job, three at the outside; but you know how it is with construction.…

Paul Buckley