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Friends Publishing is a non-profit organization dedicated to communicating Quaker experience in order to connect & deepen spiritual lives. Friends Journal is our flagship publication, with a legacy that goes back to 1827.

A photograph of a young woman with long, dark hair standing amid some trees. She looks up to the sky and the sun shines brightly upon her.
A photograph of a small globe of the planet Earth, illuminated from its interior, being cradled in a pair of human hands in the darkness.
A color photograph of a smiling Fred Rogers on the set of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, sitting on the bench by the front door in a red cardigan sweater.
A photograph of a forearm, stretched out in front of the bars of a jail cell, with blurry multicolored lights in the background.
An engraving of Jeremiah, standing on a stepped wall, crying out, surrounded by people who are listening glumly, distressed by whatever he's telling them.
A photograph of a group of people standing in a field, gathering the harvest from neat rows of plants.
A pair of dark-skinned hands held up against a white cloud in a blue sky, forming the shape of a heart icon.
A pen and ink drawing, with abstract representations of men and women sitting in a meetinghouse. Lines of sunlight come in from the upper left corne, shining on the abstract figure of a haloed Jesus, standing above those seated with a gesture of blessing.
A woodcut illustration of the Holy Spirit, in the form of a great white bird, shining its light upon a crowd of men and women, represented by little flames at the crown of their heads.
A drawing of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (from Chapter Six of the Book of Revelation) looming over a burning city next to a blood-red river. An ethnically diverse group of men and women are fleeing from them, fear writ large on their faces.
An image from a video, released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, of the accused would-be presidential assassin (circled) running through a checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
A Black man in jeans, a purple T-shirt over a yellow T-shirt, and a yellow baseball cap, uses a trowel to spread mortar across the top of a stone in a wall.
A color illustration of a group of Christian men in first-century Judaea gathering together around a table for a friendly meal. They are all smiling as they engage one another in conversation.
A painting of three men walking down a rocky road on a hill, with large trees behind them. The two men on either end seem anxious or forlorn, but the man in the middle has a comforting hand on one's shoulder, and raises the index finger of his other hand as he speaks, as if to emphasize what he's saying.
In Caravaggio's painting, Jesus bares his chest and, grabbing Thomas by the wrist, guides his finger into a gaping wound in his lower abdomen. Two other apostles stand behind Thomas, looking over his shoulder at the wound.
A painting of Mary Magdalene at the door to Jesus's tomb, where two figures, dressed all in white, stand facing her. She is shocked and frightened, nearly collapsing to the floor.
A color illustration of Mary Dyer being led down a Boston street to her place of execution. She is flanked by two armed men, with drummers in front and behind her. People stand and watch solemnly from the side of the road.
Jack Holloway plays his electric guitar on the altar of Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn while, off to the side, a Despair Sanctuary crew member monitors the sound.
A photograph of a city square, paved with bricks. Some of the bricks have been painted to form a rainbow path, but midway down the path, the colors change to those of the trans pride flag.
An ink drawing of Moses, an older bearded man, who's just struck a rock with a stick. Men, women, and children gather in amazement as they look at the water flowing from the rock. You can see, dimly, some alternative composition choices that the artist drew in chalk but did not choose for his final version.
An ink drawing of St Paul, writing in a book with a feather dipped in ink from a vessel on the table. He has a sword, pointed down toward the ground, leaning against his chest, the hilt resting at the base of his shoulder.
A photograph of the back of a man's head. He is wearing a gray baseball cap that says QUAKER in small white letters across the back. Around him we can see a crowd of protestors, some carrying signs criticizing the Trump administration and the invasion of Venezuela.
A fresco painting of Jesus, standing at the peak of a mountaintop, with Moses standing on a rock at the left of the painting and the prophet Elijah similarly positioned at the right. At the base of each of the three rocks, one of Jesus's apostles cowers, terrified.
A man sits cross-legged on a sidewalk in front of a brick all, wearing gray sweatpants and a blue hooded sweatshirt. He holds a cardboard sign that says "HOMELESS... PLEAS HELP AS I WOULD BE VERY GREATFULL ANY SPEAR CHANG WOULD HELP ME, THANK YOU."
Two protestors marching down a Minneapolis street carry a white sheet upon which is written WE BEAR WITNESS. Next to them, another protestor carries a homemade sign in the shape of a shield bearing the legend DEFEND LOVE.
A handmade protest sign, at a rally in New York City honoring the memory of Renee Good, declaring "THERE IS NO FASCISM IN THE LIGHT." Yep, a Quaker made it!
A flyer taped to an electrical box on a street in South Minneapolis says "RIP Renee" above a photograph of Renee Nicole Good and "MURDERED BY ICE" below it.
A man sits on a brick sidewalk, his back against the wall of a building. It's cold: He's wearing a hooded heavy jacket, his hands tucked inside his sleeves, and in his lap a dog sleeps, wrapped in a blanket.
The title page to Robert Barclay's "An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth, and preached by the People, Called, in Scorn, QUAKERS."
The triple star system of Apep, approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth, photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
A photograph of a man and a woman, standing on the water's edge with their backs to the camera as the sun rises over the horizon, framed in the space between their bodies.
St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness, an etching by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's early 18th-century painting of John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness to a gathered crowd.
An etching depicts an angel pulling aside one of two men in a field, preparing to take him to heaven. The man left behind kneels and holds his head in his hand, presumably weeping.
An Asian woman in a purple frock with a yellow head wrap stands in the middle of a large flock of sheep, holding one against her body with her left arm while she lifts up a small branch in her right hand. Behind her shoulder the sun is rising.
Canned goods donated to a food bank.
A painting of a young (or middle-aged) bearded man in a yellow tunic with a white headdress, sitting on a cloud. A large white scroll unfurls out of his hands, bearing a Latin verse from the Book of Haggai.
A black-and-white photograph of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Inside a cartouche of palm branches, we see the courtyard of a great temple. Up front, an old man in a fancy robe prays to God without humility. Standing well behind him, a younger man in a simple tunic looks down at the pavement.
A portrait of 17th-century Scottish Friend Lilias Skene, preaching to a small group gathered around her. She is a woman with long blond hair, in a simple dress, with a tall pointed hat.
In Gustav Doré's engraving, a bearded Paul sits in a Roman cell, manacled on his wrists and ankles. But he's totally calm, and writing a letter on a scroll that rests on the knees of his young assistant.
A portrait of John Perrot, a 17th-century Friend who was held in an insane asylum by the Vatican for several years after he tried to convince the pope to abandon Catholicism. (Since he spoke no Italian, and the pope spoke no English, the meeting went poorly.)
A fresco of a Roman couple enjoying themselves at a banquet. He's drinking from a horn-shaped cup, and she's reaching out to a servant girl who brings her a box (jewels, perhaps?).
In this black and white photograph, a person holds their fingers to the temples of their forehead, as if in sorrow; their facial features are blurred.
A handmade protest sign reading "WAKE UP & SMELL THE CORRUPTION."
Addi Schwieterman, a young woman with long dark hair.
A Friend at a march for criminal justice reform carries a handmade sign that reads "Quakers say Black Lives Matter."
Stockbrokers plying their trade on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange in the early 1960s. They are a very uniform bunch, of a White, male, middle-aged type.
A woodcut depicting the Lord calling out to the prophet Jeremiah, who watches sorrowfully as a pair of women make sacrifices on the altar of a false god. Behind him, an invading foe approaches.
A picture of Jeremiah, pointing sternly at a king who sits glumly upon his throne, his head tilted downward, unable to meet the prophet's gaze.
A print of Abraham, down on one knee in the middle of a field, harking to the voice of God, representing by a beam of light on which is written "Get thee out of thy country &c."
A wealthy couple dines at their table, being entertained by musicians. A security guard waves his baton at a poor beggar sitting on the couple's step, with dogs sniffing at his legs. A caption reads, "The rich man dines splendidly, while the beggar Lazarus lies at the door."
Andrea Mantegna's The Triumphs of Caesar III: bearers of trophies and bullion, c. 1484-92.
A photograph of people in blurred motion on a busy city street.
Gustave Doré, The Prophet Amos (detail).
A group of people stand in and alongside the road leading to the U.S. military facility at Pine Gap, Australia. Some of them hold aloft a banner that says "Quakers Are For Peace & Justice."
A man stands on a grassy hillside, in front of a rising sun, such that he can only be seen in shadow. He appears to be facing the camera.
A black-and-white photograph; the upper portion of which is dominated by the clear space of a large body of water, with a treeline reflected at the very top. Along the bottom of the photo, a man sits with another man and a woman, gesturing with his hand as he talks to them.