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!

Poetry

Take a Leaf

Poetry: "Take a leaf or a page..." Elizabeth Schultz
Features

My Life as a Friend

A woodcarver leaves the Marines for a more peaceful life. Philip C. Scott
Features

An Ode to My Quaker Father: Growing Up Black and Quaker

Growing up black and Quaker. Melissa Valentine
Features

On Being Good

Opening up those parts of ourselves we keep in the shadows. Sharon Goens-Bradley
Poetry

A Window and a Door: A Prayer

Poetry La Verne Maria Shelton
Features

My Experience as an African American Quaker

A planned memorial for freed slaves in the cemetery exposes lingering divides. Avis Wanda McClinton
Features

Love in the Belly of the Beast

Race, punishment, and hope in the prison-industrial complex. Laura Magnani
Poetry

Elias Hicks and the 3rd Zen Patriarch

Poetry John March
Poetry

Old Women Are the Best Travelers

Poetry. Includes audio reading by poet. MaryEllen Letarte
Features

Beyond the Oatmeal Box

Refuting the too-common myth that Quakers are Amish-like in our use of technology. Includes audio reading by author. A.J. Mendoza
Features

A Quaker Argument against Gun Control

When good intentions have unintended consequences. PODCAST AVAILABLE. Matthew Van Meter
Features

On the Right Side of Harpers Ferry

Finding skeletons in our Quaker closets. PODCAST AVAILABLE. Esther Coppock Shaw
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