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Spirit?
Spirit seems to have assume a major office among Friends.
Ann Birch is a member of El Paso (Texas) Meeting; she is an academic reference librarian, grandmother, and actor in local theater.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Viewpoint
Tips for Writing for Friends Journal Open Issues
Learn how to write for a Friends Journal open issue.
Writing Opp: Going Viral with Quakerism (due 5/14)
What’s the Quaker message for today? How do we communicate it and how do we share it? What are some of the overlooked low-tech methods of inviting people into our Quaker communities? Due May 7, 2018.
2018 Quakers in Politics Web Panel
The upcoming U.S. Congressional mid-term elections already have at least seven Quaker candidates for office. How does their Quaker faith inform these candidates’ desires to run for Congress? What advice would they have for other Quakers wanting to run for office in the future?
Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
Writing Opp: Creativity and the Arts (Due 3/5)
Early Friends were famously skeptical of art; modern Friends pretty much fully embrace it. Why the abrupt turnaround? What reasons might there have been for early strictures? And what cautions from early Friends might they still hold for us today? Is all art the same or is there such a thing as Quaker art? Are […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]​friendsjournal.​org
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
The Trouble With “Strangers”
Freedom isn’t anyone’s politically correct opinion.
Gerri Williams is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and has served on AFSC Nobel Peace Prize Task Group. The opinions expressed are her own*. Her article “Standing for Miss Rosa” appeared in the August 2006 issue of Friends Journal.
[*Disclaimer added by author’s request. — FJ Eds.]
Posted in: Features, February 2018
A Matter of Trust
Among Friends: Our introduction to the February 2018 issue.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal: [email protected]​friendsjournal.​org
Posted in: Among Friends, February 2018
An interview with David Harrington Watt
Friends Journal catches up with Haverford College’s new professor of Quaker studies. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library […]
Aliyah Shanti is the temporary assistant editor at Friends Journal. She lives in Philadelphia and is a member of Olympia (Wash.) Meeting.
Posted in: February 2018, Interviews
Being Quaker…Where you are: A Journey Among Isolated Friends in the Northwest
By Sakre Kennington Edson. Western Friend, 2017. 244 pages. $20/paperback; $9/eBook. In the middle of an overly full week, I promised to read this book for Friends Journal. The rash promise turned out to yield an unexpected gift, and I encourage you to open this book for yourself and pass it around your meeting. Sakre […]
Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Friends Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare Meeting in Henniker, N.H.
Posted in: February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017
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June/July 2018: Creativity and the Arts
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Art That Works by Joey Hartmann-Dow
No Such Thing as Silence by Kevin Holm-Hudson
Writing and Marketing Crime Fiction by Edith Maxwell
The Dance Studio is My Other Meetinghouse by Arthur Fink
Art Exhibition as a New Ministry by Jiae Paik
Blessed Are the Artists by Maggie Nelson
A Reluctant Minister by Peterson Toscano
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