In 1934, AFSC co-founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?
Tag Archives | state
Civility Can Be Dangerous
Lucy Duncan is the director of Friends Relations at the American Friends Service Committee.
Posted in: Online Features
The Dance Studio Is My Other Meetinghouse
When photography becomes worship.
Arthur Fink is a photographer of dance and other subjects; a sought-after speaker; a consultant helping organizations with mission, focus, communication, and conflict; a mentor to many; and co-recording clerk of Portland (Maine) Meeting. His most recent show was of photographs taken at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
2018 Quakers in Politics Web Panel
The upcoming U.S. Congressional mid-term elections already have at least seven Quaker candidates for office. How does their Quaker faith […]
Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Challenge of Our Time
By Kabir Helminski. White Cloud Press, 2017. 140 pages. $14.95/Paperback; $13.99/eBook. Kabir Edmund Helminski is a well-known American writer on […]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He has traveled to the Muslim world several times on visits to his Arab in-law family.
Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land
Tying Up the Cat
Have we forgotten the reasons for our practices?
Donne Hayden is a member of Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting. In 2012, she attended the Friends World Committee for Consultation World Gathering of Friends in Kenya, where she saw the Spirit move in singing and dancing Friends.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features
A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible-believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church
By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time […]
Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment
By Wenonah Hauter. The New Press, 2016. 276 pages. $27.95/hardcover. Food & Water Watch is a national organization with state […]
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
100 Years of Quiet Tenacity
Friends of Fairhope, Alabama.
Laura Melvin is a member of Fairhope (Ala.) Meeting. She has published in various magazines and is the author of the book Public Secrets and Justice: A Journal of a Circuit Court Judge, which is available through QuakerBooks of FGC.
Posted in: Online Features, September 2017
Love Cannot Be Overwhelmed
Viewpoint: Love cannot be overwhelmed. Love stays. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read […]
Michael Lane lives in Burlington, N.J.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Viewpoint
I urge you to look past your empire of business and riches, and ask yourself a question
Student Voices: ” All that said, I have a few pieces of final advice for you: Be kind. Build bridges, […]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
![Image: Two school-aged girls collaborate at whiteboard. Caption: To live as Friends, young people need access to Quaker experience [DONATE]](https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/lazy-images/images/1x1.trans.gif)
Facebook
Flickr
iTunes Podcast
Podcast
RSS Feed
Twitter
Youtube