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New Worldwide Quaker Map Released

By FJ Staff on September 13, 2017

Friends World Committee for Consultation released a new map of worldwide Quaker population figures, its first such release since 2012.


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Among Friends: Quaker Tools, New and Revisited

By Gabriel Ehri on September 1, 2017

Our introduction to the September 2017 issue.

Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal:聽[email protected]


Posted in: Among Friends, September 2017
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Among Friends: Understanding Death through Life

By Martin Kelley on August 1, 2017

Our introduction to the August issue on The Art of Dying and the Afterlife.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. Email: [email protected]


Posted in: Among Friends, The Art of Dying
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Life, Death, and Resilience

By Gabriel Ehri on June 1, 2017

Among Friends: Our introduction to the June/July issue.

Gabriel Ehri is聽executive director of Friends Journal.


Posted in: Among Friends, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Just Living

By Reviewed by Jim Hood on June 1, 2017

By Meredith Egan. Amity Publishers, 2016. 446 pages. $17.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Meredith Egan鈥檚 debut novel, Just Living, explores the ideas embedded within its rich title in various ways. Beth Hill, the young narrator and protagonist studying to become an Anglican priest, is searching in her own life both for her vocation and a simple life of […]

Jim Hood teaches English and environmental studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of Friendship Meeting, North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative).


Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Jeanne Ruth Ackley Lohmann

By Staff on June 1, 2017

Lohmann鈥擩eanne Ruth Ackley Lohmann, 93, on September 26, 2016, at home in Olympia, Wash., with family close by. Jeanne was born on May 9, 1923, in Arcanum, Ohio, the oldest of three children. She attended Otterbein College for a year studying French


Posted in: Milestones, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Forum May 2017

By Staff on May 1, 2017

Letters from our readers remember Henry Cadbury; a meeting with Joyce Ajlouny, shifting racial labels and accountability, a request for resources on aging, more. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 […]


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Among Friends: Happy Birthday, AFSC

By Martin Kelley on April 1, 2017

Our introduction to the issue celebrating 100 years of the American Friends Service Committee.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Among Friends
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The Courageous Many

By Lucy Duncan on April 1, 2017

Learn the many ways AFSC engages with Friends today.

Lucy Duncan serves American Friends Service Committee as director of Friends Relations and is a storyteller and member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features
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Weathering the Windfall Winner Announced!

By FJ Staff on March 1, 2017

Congratulations to Friends at Barnegat (N.J.) Meeting for their winning submission in our Weathering the Windfall contest.


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