News November 2017

News of the Quaker world: AFSC on North Korea, Quaker groups partner with Everence, Quaker House appointment.

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Student Voices 2017-18

The fifth annual Student Voices Project is underway! This year's theme is Testimony Stories, and the deadline is February 12, 2018.

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Full Access

October Full Issue Access

FJ Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

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Among Friends: Is Conscience Coming Back in Style?

Our introduction to the October 2017 issue.

Martin Kelley

Forum October 2017

Letters and comments from our readers.

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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.

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Quaker Works October 2017

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy…

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Poetry

Trust

FJ Poetry: "He has been instructed to take shelter under his mother's cloak…"

Dudley Warman

Online Features

Charlottesville Quakers and the Ongoing Stand against White Nationalists

Quakers can learn to be braver and more outspoken.

Isaac Barnes May

Mary Linda McKinney on The Body

What a great last line, Nichole. This has the uneasy ambiguity of a Shirley Jackson story…with…
Susan on What Is Actually There

Wow! Profound. Truth captured with a layering effect: Mom, the old man, the snake, the meeting,…
Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…