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Features

Simple Living Beyond the Thrift Store

Finding a balance between personal and political strategies for simple living. Philip Harnden
From the Editor's Desk

Writing Opp: Quakers and Healing (closed)

Our April 2018 issue will look at Quakers healing. I’ve always been struck by the ambivalence of early Friends on… Martin Kelley
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

Forum June/July 2017

Letters from our readers.
Student Voices Project

Every person deserves a chance and the right to have that chance

Student Voices: "The America I envision is an America where all people are treated equally. It is an America where… Kyle Witter
Student Voices Project

The following is a letter of protest

Student Voices: "Under your administration, many of my friend’s families would be deported, never to be seen again. I can… Davis Brooks
Features

Political Change through the Power of Stories

A Friend finds new confidence in her voice as a citizen. Joey Hartmann-Dow
Audio

Poet Meredith Trede reads “I Tell Him About the Body Bags”

FJ Poetry: Meredith Trede is a poet and editor. Her collection, Field Theory, was published by SFA Press, Stephen F.… Meredith Trede
Features

The Work Continues

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons. David Harrington Watt and Marian Ronan
Poetry

I Tell Him about the Body Bags

Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done... Meredith Trede
Features

Martha Ellicott Tyson

A profile of the Baltimore Quaker elder and minister (1795-1873) Virginia Schurman