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Heaven-based Living
Michael Resman is a member of Rochester (Minn.) Meeting and an editor for What Canst Thou Say? His books include A Contemporary Mysticism.
Posted in: Features, The Art of Dying
Weeping to Joy
God heals in unexpected ways.
Betsy Blake builds websites and communication strategies for companies and organizations trying to do good in the world. Her photojournalism work was recently featured on CNN and NBC news. Betsy lives in Greensboro, N.C., and is a member of First Friends Meeting. Learn more about Betsy at betsyblake.com.
This version has been slightly edited from the printed piece.
Posted in: Features, The Art of Dying
Integrity and the Ultimate
How can we talk about death when we’re so vibrantly alive?
Susann Estle is a chaplain at the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Greencastle, Ind.; a PRN chaplain at Hendricks Regional Health Hospital; and a part-time pastor at Hopewell Friends Church in Dana, Ind. She is mother to Case and Chloe.
Posted in: Online Exclusives, The Art of Dying
Life, Death, and Resilience
Among Friends: Our introduction to the June/July issue.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
It Breaks My Heart
The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend’s heart
Kate Pruitt is lab director at a small hospital in North Carolina. After farming organically for 18 years, she returned to her home state to escape the weather and find community. Connecting and exploring the Quaker way beginning in 2005 has opened up her spiritual path.
Posted in: Online Exclusives, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
By Michael McCarthy. New York Review Books, 2016. 273 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” —Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat The Moth Snowstorm is not about moths, but instead is part autobiography, part nature […]
Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Burlington (Vt.) Meeting. She currently serves as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting’s Earthcare Ministry Committee and is author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
On a Friend’s 70th Birthday
FJ Poetry: His feet walk daily paths, as duties call…
Bob Welsh lives in Black Mountain, N.C.
The obituary of the subject of Welsh’s poem, Bob Barrus, also appears in the May 2017 issue.
Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Summers
The following is a letter of protest
Student Voices: “Under your administration, many of my friend’s families would be deported, never to be seen again. I can assure you that while they may not be citizens, they are every bit as much patriotic Americans, no different from me. And in light of this, I urge you to do what is beneficial for […]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
America has always welcomed immigrants from all over the world
Student Voices: “About two years ago, I visited the Statue of Liberty for the first time. I can recall being at Ellis Island with my family where we looked up my great-great-grandpa’s name from all those who immigrated to the United States in 1911. Mr. President, those immigrants made America great.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
A Year of Borrowed Men
By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 6–9. As a child of World War II, born on the edge of London in 1941, I was intrigued by the voice of Gerda, growing up in Germany at the same time. When I was a child, Germans were […]
Margaret Crompton (Britain Yearly Meeting) is a writer and lecturer whose publications include Pendle Hill Pamphlet #419 Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being.
Posted in: Books, Quaker Summers, Young Friends Bookshelf
QuakerSpeak DVDs on Sale Now
August 2017
The Art of Dying and the Afterlife
Unaccompanied by Boyce Upholt
Heaven-based Living by Michael Resman
Children and Death by John Graham-Pole
Weeping to Joy by Betsy Blake
Quaker Book Reviews
On Friendsjournal.org: Web-only articles
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