What keeps us from helping fellow Friends with drug addictions?
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Supporting Recovery among Friends
Johanna Jackson is a young adult Friend, and a member of State College (Pa.) Meeting. She is a recent graduate of the School of the Spirit's "On Being a Spiritual Nurturer" program, class of 2019. She can be reached at [email protected].
Posted in: Drugs, Features
Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and Americaâs First Bookmobile
By Sharlee Glenn. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. 56 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 8â12. Mary Titcomb was [âŚ]
Margaret T. Waldenâs first library job was at the Rauh Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library. The branch was located in an old mansion; at the back of the mansion was the carriage house that was home to the cityâs bookmobile.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Writing Opp: Five Years of QuakerSpeak (closed)
Itâs been five years since Friends Publishing Corporation launched a companion project to Friends Journal: the QuakerSpeak video series. In [âŚ]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Finding Lightness in the Light
We Quakers have an image problem when it comes to fun and frivolity.
Kerry O'Regan has been a member of Adelaide Meeting in South Australia for the past 30 years and looks after the booksâas in library booksâfor the meeting. She is a retired teacher who lives right by the sea and so feels that she is on permanent vacation.
Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion
Quilting as Ministry
Quilting as healing at a Quaker Voluntary Service house.
Kayla Schneider-Smith is a 2016-17 Portland QVS fellow who has served both with New City Initiative, an organization that aims to end the cycle of homelessness through faith community involvement, and Urban Gleaners, a food re-purposing organization that fights childhood hunger in Oregon.
Posted in: Features, February 2018December Full Issue Access
FJ Members can download the full PDF of the December issue on Conflict and Controversy or read any article online.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Full Access
The Challenges We Face and Community We Forge
An interview with Saâed Atshan.
Martin Kelley is Friends Journalâs senior editor.
Saâed Atshan is a professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College and holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He sits on the corporation of American Friends Service Committee and the board of Pendle Hill study center. He is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features
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Written by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick, directed by Ava DuVernay. Netflix Documentary, 2016. 100 minutes. Public screenings are free [âŚ]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meetingâs Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of DyingForum June/July 2017
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I Think I Understand Now by Andrew Huff
Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment by Joe McHugh
Supporting Recovery Among Friends by Johanna Jackson
Confronting the Challenge of Drugs by Eric E. Sterling
The Liturgy of Me by r. scot miller
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I Met God on a Train Last Week by Elizabeth Bajjalieh
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