the friend online
02 October 2009


Welcome to our international edition!

Here you can find our latest articles about Quaker faith and action outside Britain as well as features on the
international Family of Friends.

Just click on any of the country links to the right to start exploring and if there's nothing about your country here yet, why not write for us yourself!

Country of the week: Zimbabwe

‘Heeding God’s call’ – the peace churches link up - 30 January 2009
Lizz Roe
q-eye - 23 January 2009
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Comment - 23 January 2009
Judy Kirby and Chuck Fager
News round-up - 16 January 2009
Oliver Robertson
Letters - 31 October 2008
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Convergent Friends: remixing tradition and imagination - 29 August 2008
C Wess Daniels
News round-up - 22 August 2008
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News round-up - 15 August 2008
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Dismal predictions: a commentary on the US election - 08 August 2008
Chuck Fager
News round-up - 01 August 2008
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New light and truth - 25 July 2008
Rowena Loverance
‘We’ve seen a ground shift every day’ - 25 July 2008
Jez Smith
Facing down the Obama-crunch - 25 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 25 July 2008
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With Friends like these - 18 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
FUM Triennial news - 18 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
Tough times for war resisters in Canada despite parliament’s help - 18 July 2008
Jez Smith
A Quaker who became a master of investigative broadcasting - 04 July 2008
Stephen Taylor
Friends United Meeting, Kenyan homosexuality and ‘liberal’ yearly meetings - 04 July 2008
David Zarembka
The Committee for New Quaker Clichés - 27 June 2008
Chuck Fager
A visit to America - 27 June 2008
Oliver Robertson
The last respectable prejudice - 13 June 2008
Diane Brewster
Letters - 06 June 2008
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'The church that shakes in the wind of the spirit’ - full text - 30 May 2008
Gerard Benson
To lie or not to lie? - 23 May 2008
Steve Whiting
The Decline of War - 09 May 2008
Loren Cobb
News round-up - 09 May 2008
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Finding Friend - 23 February 2007
Laurie Kruczek
Tom Fox, Friends’ ecclesiology and the ‘Quaker wide web’ - 23 February 2007
Chuck Fager
Whittier at 200 - 02 February 2007
Simon Webb
Quakers and the UN Peacebuilding Commission: the beginning of a beautiful friendship? - 26 January 2007
Aletia Dundas
An inconvenient truth - 05 January 2007
Gwen Prince & Laurie Michaelis
News round-up - 15 December 2006
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Change starts here - 24 November 2006
Tom Pouncey
A Quaker agitator’s journey - 20 October 2006
David Austin
But the mind is set free… - 06 October 2006
Jill Segger and Jan Arriens
Letter from Maine - 25 August 2006
Andy Stoller
Lorenzo and his mask - 25 August 2006
Arla Patch
From Salem to freedom - 18 August 2006
Priscilla Santhosham
Discernment in Community: What Leads to Life? - 28 July 2006
Thomas Jeavons, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
'To find hell and carry some Light down there' - 16 June 2006
Ellen McGeorge, Bournemouth & Swanage MM
Findin’ that light within... - 19 May 2006
Jan Arriens
Sharing prayers - 21 April 2006
Nancy Irving


All international articles


Africa: Kenya - Madagascar - Rwanda - South Africa - Zimbabwe

Americas: Bolivia - Canada - USA

Asia/West Pacific: South Korea

Europe*: Austria - Belgium - Denmark - France - Finland - Germany - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lebanon - Netherlands - Norway - Spain - Sweden

Middle East: Israel - Lebanon - Palestine

* We're not including Britain in our international index, though of course articles may have been written by Friends in Britain