Departments
Departments are the shorter articles (around 1,500 words or less) found toward the back of each issue that fall under one of our current department categories, listed below with some recent examples:
- Celebration - example: "Friends House Turns 30" (FJ Dec. 2014)
- Earthcare - examples: "New Katsura Tree Continues Tradition at George School" (FJ June/July 2014); "Expanding the Old Pine Farm" (FJ Aug. 2013)
- Faith and Practice - example: "What Is the Core of Quaker Faith?" (FJ Oct. 2014)
- First-day School
- (New!) Friends in Business - examples: "Business Lessons from Levi Coffin" (FJ May 2015); "Confessions of a Tired Accountant" (FJ Jan. 2015); "The Quaker Points Game" (FJ Nov. 2014)
- From the Archives
- History - example: "Richard Nixon's First Cover-Up" (FJ June/July 2013)
- Humor - example: "R U Clerkn?" (FJ Aug. 2013)
- Life in the Meeting - examples: "Built on Faith" and "The Monkey Who Went to Meeting" (FJ May 2014); "The Mandala" (FJ June/July 2013)
- Lives of Friends - example: "New Paths in Later Life" (FJ Apr. 2013)
- Pastoral Care
- Q&A - examples: "Friends New Underground Railroad" (FJ Sept. 2014); "Rabbi Michael Lerner" (FJ Apr. 2013)
- Reflection - examples: "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple" (FJ June/July 2013); "Reimagining a Yearly Meeting" (FJ Apr. 2013); "A Holy Place" (FJ Feb. 2013)
- Religious Education
- Remembrance - example: "Pete Seeger and Friends" (FJ Mar. 2014)
- Service - example: "QICSEF Dissolves After Two Decades of Service" (FJ Apr. 2014)
- Witness - examples: "Conflict Resolution in Kiev" (FJ May 2014); "Drone Warfare" (FJ Apr. 2013)