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The Realization

By Elizabeth Hare on May 1, 2018

Simplicity is something that everyone needs. It’s something that makes life easier. It made my life easier. It adds a […]

Elizabeth Hare, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School

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A Simple, Silent Moment

By Eliana DeHaven on May 1, 2018

Our feet danced in an inch of water, and the wooden benches beneath us were worn from use and age. […]

Eliana DeHaven, Grade 8, Buckingham Friends School

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Another Way to Climb a Tree

By Reviewed by Katie Green on May 1, 2018

By Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Hadley Hooper. Roaring Brook Press, 2017. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. […]

Katie Green attends Clearwater Meeting in Dunedin, Fla., and is a member of Worcester (Mass.) Meeting. She is a storyteller, workshop facilitator, and writer.

Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

By Reviewed by James Foritano on May 1, 2018

By Dori Jones Yang. SparkPress, 2017. 256 pages. $12.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. It seems almost anticlimactic when the […]

James Foritano attends Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting.

Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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The Trouble With “Strangers”

By Gerri Williams on February 1, 2018

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

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Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on January 1, 2018

By Drew G. I. Hart. Herald Press, 2016. 157 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. A few months ago, I walked to […]

Posted in: January 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Lifestyles

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Forum November 2017

By Staff on November 1, 2017

Letters from readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join […]

Posted in: Forum, Quaker Libraries

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Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances?

By Carol Kitchen on November 1, 2017

Information is coming to us in different ways than it did in the first 350 years of Quaker history.

Carol Kitchen is retired from a career in social work in varied settings. She has professional degrees in library science and social work and a doctorate in religion and society.

Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries

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