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Forum April 2018

By Staff on April 1, 2018

Letters from our readers đź”’ 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 of Quaker information: every Friends Journal ever published, going back […]


Posted in: Forum, Healing
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Among Friends: All Land Is Holy Land

By Martin Kelley on March 1, 2018

An introduction to our March issue on Quakers and the Holy Land.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.


Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and the Holy Land
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News February 2018

By Staff on February 1, 2018

News of Friends: Statement from AFSC on being banned from work in Israel; Remembering Muted Voices symposium; Quakers in Britain denounce recognition of Jerusalem; Friends celebrate World Quaker Day. đź”’ 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 […]


Posted in: February 2018, News
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Writing Opp: Quakers and the Holy Land

By Martin Kelley on October 31, 2017

In March 2018 Friends Journal is publishing an issue on religion and politics in the Middle East. We could have gone with a more neutral description of the region than “Holy Land,” but we wanted to indicate that we were interested not only in the political struggles but also in the region’s unique and sometimes […]

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


Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
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Beauty; Beauty Everywhere

By Geoff Knowlton on August 1, 2017

The sound of machines, monitors, and people in the hallway evaporated; it felt like being in meeting for worship when the gathered center down.

Geoff Knowlton grew up Quaker and was later ordained in the United Church of Christ. He returned to the Friends and joined Worcester (Mass.) Meeting. He worked for a small hospice in New Hampshire and is currently a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and attachment-related disorders.


Posted in: Online Features, The Art of Dying
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News, March 2017

By Staff on March 1, 2017

News from Friends: NEYM donates records to UMass Amherst; Quaker gives invocation at Pennsylvania State Senate; Cambridge Friends worship as witness outside bomb manufacturer. đź”’ 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 […]


Posted in: News, Race and Anti-Racism
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Who Is My Neighbor?

By Ellie Beach on January 1, 2017

Can we reject unacceptable actions and still find ways to touch those neighbors in pain? đź”’ 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 […]

Ellie Beach lives in Hiram, Ohio.


Posted in: January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace, Viewpoint
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Watch Out for Flying Kids

Watch Out for Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community

By Reviewed by Margaret Crompton on May 1, 2016

By Cynthia Levinson. Peachtree Publishers, 2015. 216 pages. $22.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Messages in Quaker meetings are often Earth-bound and forgettable. But I remember Jim’s challenge from years ago. He described how élite military personnel train to parachute onto tiny roof spaces. Why, he asked, don’t Quakers train for peace with equivalent […]

Margaret Crompton (Britain Yearly Meeting) is a writer and lecturer whose publications include Pendle Hill pamphlet #419 Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being (2012).


Posted in: May 2016 Young Friends Bookshelf, May 2016: Gender and Sexuality, Quaker Book Reviews
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In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine

By Reviewed by Hina Fathima on March 1, 2016

By Nora Barrows-Friedman. Just World Books, 2014. 274 pages. $20.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. My political education about Palestine began through my friends, and by sporadically participating in events hosted by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Haverford College. I attended the Palestine Culture Week, talks about Israel, and movie screenings about the conflict. There […]

Hina Fathima worked as an editorial assistant at Friends Journal in 2014. She graduated in 2015 from Haverford College, where she studied political science. She is interested in journalism and currently lives and works in Philadelphia as a freelance photographer.


Posted in: Disability and Inclusion, March 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Viewpoint: Freeing the Oppressors

By Gracia Fay Ellwood on January 1, 2016

A response to the Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined “Quakers: No Friends of Israel”

Gracia Fay Ellwood lives in Pasadena, Calif.


Posted in: January 2016: Quakers and the Political Process, Viewpoint
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