A family tragedy unleashes a flood of unexpected emotions and lessons.
Tag Archives | April
Surprised by Joy
Kat Griffith is a member of Winnebago Worship Group in east central Wisconsin, a high school teacher, and former homeschooler. She has previously written for Friends Journal about Northern Yearly Meeting's relationship with Salvadoran Friends and "Conversations from the Heartland," a series of discussions with conservative Christian homeschooling friends.
An earlier version of this article appeared in the November 2016 issue of What Canst Thou Say?
Posted in: Features, February 2019
Helen Steere Horn
Horn—Helen Steere Horn, 86, on April 29, 2018, unexpectedly, in Athens, Ohio. Helen was born on April 11, 1932, in […]
Posted in: Milestones, Quakers and Christianity
April 2018 Full Issue Access
Members can download the full PDF or read any article online (see links below). Features: “Nurturing Growth and Healing through […]
FJ Members can download the full PDF of the April issue or read any article online.
Posted in: Full Access, Healing
Writing Opp: Quakers and Healing (due 1/15)
Our April 2018 issue will look at Quakers healing. I’ve always been struck by the ambivalence of early Friends on […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Edward W. Wickersham
Wickersham—Edward W. Wickersham, 84, on April 15, 2017, at Foxdale Village in State College, Pa., Ted was born on April […]
Posted in: Milestones, Quaker Libraries
David A. Meirs II
Meirs—David A. Meirs II, 87, on March 27, 2017, in Cinnaminson, N.J., surrounded by love and family. David was born […]
Posted in: Conscience, Milestones
AFSC’s Centennial: April full issue access
Members can download full PDF or read any article online.
Posted in: 2017
Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times
Shan Cretin looka back at 100 years of Quaker action and witness.
Shan Cretin will be retiring as general secretary of American Friends Service Committee at the end of August 2017, a post she has held since September 2010. She is currently a member of Santa Monica (Calif.) Meeting and a sojourning member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features
After the Marathon Bombing
FJ Poetry: What shall we do with the stillness, do with the hate and the pity?
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March 2019
Full Issue Access
Features
Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse by Yohannes “Knowledge” Johnson
What Does the Outside Say? by Brad Stocker
Faces of Addiction by Eric K. Hatch
Faithful Action on Climate Change by Lynn Fitz‐Hugh
Experiments with Worship by Elizabeth Claggett‐Borne
Holding Unite the Right to the Light by Debby Churchman
Poetry
After a Quote by William Penn by Maggie Hess
Most Evenings by Nathan Lipps
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