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 was founded in 1955 as a consolidation of two previous publications, The Friend (Orthodox, founded 1827) and The Friends Intelligencer (Hicksite, founded 1844). Originally published weekly and then bi-weekly, it became a monthly periodical in 1988.