Race

Benjamin Lundy, Pioneer Quaker Abolitionist

Benjamin Lundy, like many young men of his time restless and sketchily educated, longed for new places and experiences. The…

Courage and Compassion

It is a joy and a challenge, but also often a frustration, to prepare issues of Friends Journal months in…

Learning from Sarah Douglass

In 1833, Sarah Mapps Douglass, an African American educator, moved from her home in Philadelphia to New York City to…

Traveling in the Ministry – But Not on Horseback

It’s the 21st century, and we Quakers are still doing it, traveling in pairs great distances to nurture small and…