The Friend

The Friend is Britian's weekly Quaker magazine and has been published continuously since 1843.

The Friend is one of the oldest continuously published periodicals in the world still in operation. Other titles, such as Punch, which began publication earlier, have experienced lengthy interruptions and or ceased altogether.

The Friend is completely independent of Britain Yearly Meeting, although since 2004 it has occupied offices at Friends House in London.

It is owned by The Friend Publications Ltd., a trust that also publishes Friends Quarterly. Trustees of The Friend are appointed from among members of Britain Yearly Meeting.

Many Meeting Houses across Britain keep old copies of The Friend – often stacked in generous piles – which are free to read.

Friends Journal

In the United States, Friends Journal was founded in 1955 ‘for the purpose of promoting the religious concerns of the Society of Friends and the education and information of its members and others by means of the written or spoken word, including the publication of a magazine or magazines, pamphlets or other writings’.

Friends Journal is the successor to two earlier American publications, The Friend (1827 – 1955) and Friends Intelligencer (1844 – 1955). Today the magazine is published in print eleven times per year and continuously online by Friends Publishing Corporation.

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