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2017

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Among Friends: Is Conscience Coming Back in Style?

Our introduction to the October 2017 issue.

Forum October 2017

Letters and comments from our readers.
Features

Let’s Be Salt

Learning, teaching, and practicing the extraordinary power of nonviolence. Daniel O. Snyder
Features

God Still Speaks to the Quakers

A group of activists from many faith traditions work together to protest drone warfare. John Amidon
Features

An AFSC Defense of the Rights of Conscience

The Case of the United States of America vs. Daniel A. Seeger Daniel A. Seeger
Features

Why Talk about Conscientious Objection with Youth?

Conscience must be developed and nurtured. Curt Torell
Poetry

Voyagers

FJ poetry: "On the road south toward home / a chevron of geese crosses..." Linda Rabben
Poetry

Higher Order Thinking

FJ Poetry: "What if Eve, eyeing the / red lusciousness of the apple… Katherine Murray
Online Features

The Advantage of History: An Interview with Timothy Snyder

Friends Journal interviews the author of the best-selling book on resisting the rise of American authoritarianism. Gabriel Ehri

News October 2017

News from Wilmington Yearly Meeting, the Foulkeways community, and Zimbabwe.
October 2017 Books

Lilli de Jong

By Janet Benton. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2017. 335 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Lilli de Jong, a historical work of fiction set…

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