Friends Journal

Friends Journal
Friends Journal from December 2013
Categories Quaker magazine
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 6,510
First issue July 2, 1955
Company Friends Publishing Corporation
Country United States
Based in Philadelphia
Website www.friendsjournal.org
ISSN 0016-1322

Friends Journal is a monthly Quaker magazine that combines first-person narrative, reportage, poetry, and news. It is an independent publication of Friends Publishing Corporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Friends Journal is a consolidation of two earlier publications, The Friend (Orthodox, 1827—1955) and The Friends Intelligencer (Hicksite, 1844—1955).[1] It was renamed Friends Journal in 1955 with the merger of the two magazines and coincided with the reconciliation of Hicksite and Orthodox Friends in Philadelphia [2]. It was originally published weekly and then bi-weekly; it became a monthly periodical in 1988.[3]

The mission of Friends Journal is "to communicate Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives." [4] The magazine is a founding member of Quakers Uniting in Publications. [5]

In 2014, Friends Journal launched QuakerSpeak, a YouTube channel featuring interviews with Friends on core questions of Quaker faith.

In 2016, Friends Journal received the Best in Class award from the Association of Church Press.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Quaker Serials Haverford Collection Library Special Collections
  2. ↑ Liberal Quaker Journal Publishing to 1955 Friends Journal
  3. ↑ An Inventory of the Friends Journal (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, 1959-1968 Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
  4. ↑ Mission and History Friends Journal website
  5. ↑ Journals and Periodicals Quakers Uniting in Publication.
  6. ↑ “Best of the Church Press” Awards 2016 Association of Church Press website


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