“The Torah says: Choose Life. What will you choose, life or death?" Earlier this year, an anonymous Jewish Friend shared her concerns about the violence in Gaza with QuakerSpeak.
This week’s guest, who wishes to remain anonymous, describes herself as “a pacifist, a poet, a Jewish grandmother, [and] a bubbe.”…
In October 1656, James Nayler traveled to Bristol, riding a horse down the muddy street leading into the city, with several Friends walking ahead, singing his praises—a provocative re-enactment of Jesus’ Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem. Puritan authorities reacted badly. quaker.org/2024/09/30/w...
"Who are we?" and "What are the boundaries of our faith?" are perennial questions at Friends Journal. Quakers are such fascinatingly complicated people, with multiple influences—backgrounds, friendships, politics, hobbies—that shape us in unexpected ways.
October 2024
"I was visiting a church near my new home that met in a beautiful historic building on the St. John’s River. I fell in love with the location, until the minister announced a joint project the church planned to undertake with the local Quaker meeting."
Explore Vicki Winslow's reflection on rediscovering Quaker heritage through the cherished memories of a great-great-grandmother, faith, and family traditions.
The dominant culture of this age, like that of every age, aims to seduce us with false promises of safety & comfort in a hostile world. The testimony of an authentic Quaker life is a prophetic opportunity to expose these lies and remind the world of a better way to live. quaker.org/2024/09/23/w...
In Nancy Learned Haines' novel To Every Season, a Quaker in colonial North Carolina and her husband face excruciating moral choices as they try to adhere to their principles when the Revolutionary War breaks out.
The American Revolution poses moral challenges to a Quaker family's pacifism in this historical novel by Nancy Learned Haines.
"You could type queries into a chatbot that has no idea what it’s thinking. Or you could, you know, support the Quaker media that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc., are training their bots on. Real Quaker writing by real Quakers who write."—our senior editor, Martin Kelly, on the rise of AI.
A new collection of essays by Quakers, describing how they follows leadings of the Spirit, takes readers around the world, from a Philadelphia meetinghouse to an encounter with Afghani refugees in Moscow.
40-some Quakers discuss how they're following the leadings of Spirit.
Quaker meetings, churches, and worship groups offer opportunities to form deep interpersonal ties. Friends living in intentional communities grounded in Quaker faith and practice find additional chances to forge relationships that stretch them spiritually. www.friendsjournal.org/we-live-wors...
Spiritual nurturing in Quaker intentional communities.
The accumulated clutter of data from school, the news, and social media increasingly blocks us from the wonders of the earth—and is there anything more important than letting Spirit shine out from inside ourselves, and taking it in from others? www.friendsjournal.org/the-messy-bu...
Tending the permeable membrane.