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2024 Issue 1

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Articles of Faith

• Interfaith Work: Going for the jugular or peace in our times? by Marigold Bentley
• A Pantheistic Prayer For These Chaotic Times? by Paul Hodgkin
• Others’ Faiths by Eleanor Nesbitt
• Faith and Myth by Richard Seebohm
• The Future of Religion: A global perspective by Peter Varney
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

FQ 2023 bundle offer

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The Friends Quarterly is an inspiring resource for learning, exploring and sharing.

Each issue has four thought-provoking essays on one theme, written by different contributors from across the wider community of Friends.

We are offering readers of the Friend a special offer of all four issues from 2023 for only £18 (inc. p+p), a saving of £6 on buying them all separately!

2023 Issue 4

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Good grief

• On living with death: A reflection by Rosemary Daley
• Liberal Quakers and life after death by Kersti Wagstaf
• End of life: journey and legacy by Wendy Pattinson
• Taking the non-problem seriously by Judith Moran
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2023 Issue 3

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Outreach

• Redefining successful outreach: How can more people find a home in Quaker communities? by Naomi Major
• Facing the outreach quandary: How to be seen by Annette Gamblin
• Quaker Outreach: Connecting with the community by Chapt GPT
• Hospitality and the pilgrim: A reflection on communion and community by Harvey Gillman
• Being who I am by Anthony Gimpel
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2023 Issue 2

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Preparing for Yearly Meeting

• A more nimble approach to being Quaker by Beth Allen
• Reflections on the Peace Testimony in our time by Till Geiger
• A plea for the plundered by Edward Dommen
• To arrive where we started: approaching nonduality by Abigail Maxwell
• David Blamires (1936-2022) A tribute
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2023 Issue 1

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Feeling our way

• Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death by Hilary Johnson
• Centering Prayer: A contemplative gift for Friends? by Rosemary Field
• Exploring and navigating fear: An essential element of our spiritual journey by Kate Graham
• Is love infinite? by Priscilla Alderson
• Walking the labyrinth by Andy Stoller
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

Take a break with the FQ

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With the days getting longer, an issue of the Friends Quarterly is a great magazine to have to hand, wherever you spend your time.

Each issue has four thought-provoking essays on one theme, written by different contributors from across the wider community of Friends.

We are offering readers of the Friend a special offer of all four issues from 2022 for only £18 (inc. p+p),  a saving of £6 on buying them all separately!

2022 Issue 4

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What on Earth?

• Idolatry and covenant: Naming spiritual aspects of the Earth crises by Paul Hodgkin
• Addressing our worst global nightmares while managing our righteousness by Paul Ingram
• Poem: A land not mine, still by Anna Akhmatova
• All change! Making paths on shifting ground by Living Witness Gathering
• Is private property compatible with climate justice? by Frances Voelcker
• The Quaker spiritual journey: Towards a new creation by Stuart Masters
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2022 Issue 3

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Truth & justice

• Truth, justice and the Spirit by Jan Arriens, Martina Weitsch, and Gerald Hewitson
• Dancing through the darkness: Toward spirit-led foreign and security policy by Gordon Matthews
• Poem: There is a better country by Christina Rossetti
• The spiritual heart of our shared humanity by Howard Grace
• What does it mean to be anti-racist? by Kate McNally and Rachael Swancott
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2022 Issue 2

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What does good governance look like?

• Governance, the Quaker way by Judith Thompson
• ’Gospel Order’: Understanding how Quakers make decisions together, and how we can adjust to new circumstances by Deborah Rowlands
• What does good governance look like? by Simon Risley
• Poetry and prayer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox & Thomas Merton
• What I mean when I say I believe in God by Tim Gee
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2022 Issue 1

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Reflecting on the journey

• A fresh look at ‘Bringing the Invisible into the Light’ by Alison Leonard
• Poem: Journey home by Rabindranath Tagore
• Reflecting on the journey – thus far by Edwina Peart
• From sacrifice to forgiving by Anthony Gimpel
• Poem: The journey by Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi
• Seeking direction to uncover the truth about myself by Nim Njuguna
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2021 Issue 4

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Truth decay

• Doing the truth by John Lampen
• Poem by Abigail Maxwell
• The Truth about Truth by Jane Dawson
• Poem: Forgiveness by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Unpacking Truthfulness by Bob Ward
• How do we know what is true? by David Brown
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2021 Issue 3

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Living equality and truth in a time of crisis

• Of the Society, and not just in it: Cultivating anti-racism in the Religious Society of Friends by Rosemary Crawley
• ’Why do you call me good?’: Whiteness and Quaker theological fragility by Mark Russ
• Gender sense and simplicity: Growing the sense of a diverse meeting by Yvonne Estop-Wood
• The souls of Quakers under environmentalism by Laurence Hall
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2021 Issue 2

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The future of Quakerism

• Our limited understanding of community: It’s time to remake Quakerism by Jon Martin
• Faith in the future, or, how to have hope by Freya Blyth
• Being a Young Quaker with a capital Y by Peyton Lee
• Listening for the future by James McCarthy
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2020 Issue 4

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Quakers at Christmas

• Mary and me by Marisa Johnson
• “The time called Christmas” by Joseph Jones
• Quakers and the incarnation in the twenty-first century by Ruth Wilde
• Quakers - Outside or ahead of the mainstream? by Helen Johnson
• Gifts and giving by Alistair Fuller
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2020 Issue 3

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• Virtual pilgrim by Tim Gee
• Who are we going to be on the other side? Reflections on spiritual life during Covid-19 and beyond by Annette Gamblin
• Spiritual Learnings from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) by Richard Eddleston
• Fostering leadings of love through the Loving Earth Project by Linda Murgatroyd
• Learning from Covid-19 for climate action A perspective from the Quaker United Nations Office by Lindsey Fielder Cook
• Plus discussion questions for study groups, for Meetings and other gatherings.

2020 Issue 2

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• Gill Sewell and Olivia Sewell Risley introduce their first issue as editors, focused on inclusion and diversity
• Nim Njuguna proposes Friends embrace the truth about the value of diversity
• Abigail Maxwell writes about her lived experience and being frightened of her feelings during the silence of worship
• Martyn Beer describes the origins of and debate around Quaker schools
• An anonymous Friend asserts that when wrestling with diversity and inclusion, it won’t mean working with like-minded individuals
• Plus New discussion questions

2020 Issue 1

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• Tony Stoller reflects of the stewardship that is the responsibility of Quaker publications
• Erin Bell discusses the relationship between Jews and Quakers over time
• ’Farrier’, an original poem but Seán Street
• Harvey Gillman on reading, and the challenge and delight in the process
• Stuart Masters asks if we can find traces of an eco-theology within Nayler’s writings
• Two meditations by Stevie Krayer
• Laurie Michaelis explores ‘the most fundamental challenge of our time’