Skip to content
  • Subscribe to FJ
  • Advertise
  • Classifieds
  • Español
  • Swahili
  • Donate
Friends Journal logo
friends journal mobile logo
  • Find Quakers
  • Write for Us
  • Archives
  • Book Reviews
  • QuakerSpeak
  • 🎧 Podcast
  • Quaker.org
  • About
swes
  • Donate
  • Advertise
    • Create Classified
  • Classified
  • Archive
  • Submissions: Write for Friends Journal
  • QuakerSpeak
  • Book Reviews
  • About
  • Search
  • 🎧 Podcast
  • Meetings
  • Milestones & Obituaries

Asia

Features

Empty Boots

A parable about the human costs of wars. Eric E. Sabelman

Friendly Water for the World

October 2020 Update Quaker Works
Features

Proclaiming Love and Justice

A history of American Friends Service Committee's work for LGBTQ rights and recognition. Stephen McNeil

Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power in Japan: The Ocean of Light above the Ocean of Darkness

The Ocean of Light above the Ocean of Darkness “…there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite… Karen Street

The Life of Japanese Quaker Inazo Nitobe

At Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, numerous epistles are read from other yearly meetings throughout the world. Likewise Philadelphia sends its annual… Samuel M. Snipes

My Trip to Kunduz

In the summer of 2009, I was given a grant by German Technical Corporation to conduct field research to gather… Akbar Noorjahan

Dispelling Some Myths about Hiroshima

As part of my semester abroad in Tokyo, Japan, my study program took our group of U.S. exchange students on… Toran Katie
Features

What am I Doing Here?: Partnering with a Himalayan Village

I first went to the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal as an adventurer and mountain climber in 1995. After four Himalayan… JeffRasley

Kicked by God: A Journey into Public Schoolteaching

The late Korean Quaker Ham Sok Han once said that on his life journey he was "kicked by God" onto… KittyTaylorMizuno

A Peace Education Sabbatical

Learnings From My Father I believe in the culture of peace. I believe in daily peace building on a personal,… Susan Gelber Cannon

How I Became a Pacifist: An Interview with Lee Thomas

FJ: How did you feel about the war effort? Were people at that time okay with it? Lee: Well, sure.… Susan Corson-Finnerty

A Testimony on the Effects of Combat from a United States Army Officer

I cannot tell you much about the Peace Testimony of Friends; I have only read about it in books. I… David Gosling
Load More

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Get free news and updates from Friends Journal and our QuakerSpeak video series.

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Share

  • Contact the Editors

Write

  • Contact the Editors
  • Write a letter to the Forum
  • Get permission to reprint

Explore

  • Obituaries/Milestones
  • Find a Quaker meeting
  • Read Quaker Classifieds
  • Read Quaker Works
  • Find Basic Information about Quakers

Members

  • Digital Edition Archives (PDFs)
  • Change Of Address

Support

  • Pay a bill or invoice
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

Friends Journal

  • Contact info
Donation

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Donation
  • © 2026 Friends Publishing Corporation.
  • Legal

Enter a keyword to search.

Log In

Forgot Password?

Don't have an account? Join

Manage your privacy

To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access that is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access that is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}
Manage your privacy
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access that is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access that is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}