Friends Journal

Friends Journal – Church and State

Make sure also to link to the new edition of Friends Journal, where a Friend writes a featured essay in a magazine of fewer and fewer subscribers as the boutique publication goes further and further out on a limb. You think your local Quaker meeting has lost its way? Check out this magazine for the ultimate in touchy-feely absurdity.

The newest feature is about the separation of conservative church and state. (Hint: It’s OK for liberal Quakers to lobby the federal government for a liberal agenda and get Democrats elected, but not for conservative Christians to do the opposite.)

Why does this publication continue to look for bequests and bequeaths instead of publishing material that speaks to the core of Quakerism? Hmmm..