History

Liberal Quaker Journal Publishing to 1955

One of the reasons that historians like Quakers, and why historians have given Quakers attention out of all proportion to…

Christmas – Every Day or Never?

No doubt an old-fashioned Quaker Christmas was a cozy time according to some traditions or records or family memories, but…

Reading 50 Years of FRIENDS JOURNAL

I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…

The Prophecy of Mary Peisley Neale

Mary Peisley was born into a Quaker family in Ballymore, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1717. At age 27, she was…

On the Peace Testimony

This is the text of a speech by Richard Hathaway to an interfaith service in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November…

Comments on the review of When the Rain Returns

I was deeply saddened by Stanley Zarowin’s review of When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and…

Mary Penington (1625-1682)

Mary Penington’s name is usually mentioned first because she was married to Isaac, and secondarily as mother of Gulielma, William…

Our Theological Illiteracy

We have heard a good deal of late about our theological illiteracy as Friends, and we are likely to hear…

Finding Jesus in the Present

Reflecting on earlier periods of history, I often think I would have preferred to live as a farmer during the…

Time to Lay Down William Penn’s Sword

The story of William Penn and his sword is deeply embedded in Quaker mythology; so deeply, it seems, that it…

Jesus as a Friend

Many members of the Religious Society of Friends love the ambiguity of the term friend as it shifts between companion…

James Nayler: The Lessons of Discernment

Friends encounter James Nayler mostly as an object lesson. They tend to know that he was an important early leader,…
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