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Discover the contemporary Quaker way with the Friend – the only Quaker weekly journal in the world!

About the Friend
Every week we provide you with news, features, personal stories, arts, humour and friendship. With the Friend you can keep up to date with contemporary Quaker thought and action.

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Contributing images via flickr
If you want to submit images for use in the Friend you can now do so through Jez's Friend flickr group.

New epistle blog
We've set up a new epistle blog. We can't always print the epistles that Quakers send us, so we've set up a new blog so that the epistles can be made easily available and then linked to in the magazine. The address is http://quakerepistles.wordpress.com.

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Independent Quaker journalism since 1843