Friends Journal podcast

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Our podcast features poems and articles read by authors, along with the audio of our monthly author chat interviews. We started this service in part to make the magazine more accessible for those with vision impairments. Please share this information with friends and loved ones who might be better able to keep up with “Quaker thought and life today” through the spoken word!

PS: our video project QuakerSpeak also now has a podcast!

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Interview with Ron McDonald, author of This Age of Insecurity

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power. Ron McDonald
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Interview with Kevin Rutledge, author of Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa

Read: Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa Subscribe to FJ’s podcast series. You can listen online from our website or subscribe to… Kevin Rutledge
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Podcast reading of “Psychological Seduction”

From “Psychological Seduction“: As a young child no more than seven years old, I went gift shopping with my mother… Khary Bekka
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Podcast reading of “Reducing Violence from Within”

From Reducing Violence from Within: In light of the numerous black civilian deaths by police this year, including those in… Sing Sing Worship Group
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Poet Karen Craigo reads “Evanesce”

From Evanesce: Used to be our worth was easy to measure—a coin for each eye, or one placed above the… Karen Craigo
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Author reading of “An Experiment with Abundance”

From An Experiment with Abundance: “Witness, change, and opportunity” are the three words that infused the preparation for the 2014… John Humphries and Kathleen Wooten

Poet Robert Dixon-Kolar reads “Feeling Our Way to You”

From “Feeling Our Way to You“: As if blind, we feel every hour our way to You. Subscribe to FJ’s…

Author Su Penn reads “Beyond Goodness Sex”

From Beyond Goodness Sex: Six people live in our house: me; my partner of two decades; our three children; and…

Author Justin Leverett reads “A Pacifist’s Defense of the Media”

Excerpt from “A Pacifist’s Defense of the Media“: It hurts my heart a good deal every time I hear someone harshly…
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Author Deborah First reads “Israel-Palestine and the Call to Faithful Action”

Excerpt from Israel-Palestine and the Call to Faithful Action: A journey that began 20 years ago with the decision to spend time… Deborah First
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Poet Alexander Levering Kern reads “Target Practice at the Beach”

Excerpt from Target Practice at the Beach: Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief. Consider how, for a four year old… Alexander Levering Kern
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Author T. Hamboyan Harrison reads “Finding Fellowship After the Charleston Church Massacre”

Excerpt from Finding Fellowship After the Charleston Church Massacre: I remember watching in horror as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina unfolded. As… T. Hamboyan Harrison
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