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Simplicity

Images from some of 2025's top stories at Friends Journal: ICE agents on the move; a burning shack; a Quaker holding a peaceful protest sign. Features

Our Top Five Articles for 2025

Let's look at this year's most widely read features. FJ Editorial Staff
Images from some of this year's most widely read Friends Journal stories. Features

Our Top Five Articles for 2025 (So Far)

Let's look at this year's most widely read features. FJ Editorial Staff
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Forum, April 2020

Letters from our readers. Staff
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Life in a Box

The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins. Andrew Huff
Features

Writing and Marketing Crime Fiction

Holding onto the testimonies as the village death count rises. Edith Maxwell
Student Voice Project 2018

The Realization

Simplicity is something that everyone needs. It’s something that makes life easier. It made my life easier. It adds a… Elizabeth Hare
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Reducing Violence from Within

A minute by a group of men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Sing Sing Worship Group

S-P-I-C-E-S: The Quaker Testimonies

This model of Friends testimonies is incorporated into the school’s curriculum. Connecticut Friends School

Finding the Prophetic Voice for Our Time

Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. —1 Corinthians 14:1 Dear Friends,… Lizz Roe

A Quaker Family (Yours) Saves Energy

People in the United States, and Quakers in particular, are at a confluence of social, economic, and environmental events like… Thomas G. Wells

Public Transportation in the Future

Several years ago, my wife and I paid a visit to the Women’s Suffrage Museum in Seneca Falls, N.Y. As… Peter Javsicas

Climate Change, Quakerism, and a Transformed Life

It was a blind date with a rising executive with General Motors that did it. It was the late 1980s… Hollister Knowlton
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