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Writing Opp: Quakers and Healing (due 1/15)

By Martin Kelley on December 8, 2017

Our April 2018 issue will look at Quakers healing. Iā€™ve always been struck by the ambivalence of early Friends on [ā€¦]

Martin Kelley is senior editor ofĀ Friends Journal:Ā [email protected]


Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
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Student Voices: Get Involved

By Aiknoor Kaur on April 1, 2015

Describe the scenarios and places where you see peace and conflict in your daily life.


Posted in: April 2015: Mentorship: Teaching Our Values, Student Voices Project
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Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement / Quakers and Abolition

By Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter on April 1, 2015

Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement: By Brian Temple. McFarland & Company Inc., 2014. 240 pages. $39.95/paperback; $24.99/eBook.   Quakers [ā€¦]

Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author ofĀ Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America.Ā He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and serves on the Friends JournalĀ board of trustees.


Posted in: April 2015 Books, April 2015: Mentorship: Teaching Our Values, Quaker Book Reviews
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Walking From Shadows Into Light

By Peter Lang on March 1, 2012

ā€œā€¦ for we walk by faith not by sight.ā€ (2 Corinthians 5:7) As a retired person, walking has become a way [ā€¦]

Peter Lang lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and is a member of Chatham-Summit Meeting. As a Traveling Friend, Peter has visited numerous meetings in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and New York Yearly Meeting sharing his program, "My Journey with Thomas Kelly; Seeking the Light Within."


Posted in: Departments, Reflection
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Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

By Adam Waxman on July 1, 2007

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be [ā€¦]

Adam Waxman, a member of Chestnut Hill Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., graduated from the Quaker Leadership Studies Program at Guilford College this year with dual degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies. He is living in Washington, D.C.


Posted in: Features
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