{"id":2935,"date":"2022-04-29T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=2935"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:17:03","slug":"friendly-persuasion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/friendly-persuasion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friendly Persuasion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Juliet Henderson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of us present at 9:30 Meeting for Worship on Sunday 24 April in the Meeting House were moved and engaged by the ministries offered on the peace testimony by different Friends \u2013 all connected to the issue of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Mention was made of the 1956 film <em>Friendly Persuasion<\/em>, a film that recounts how the pacifist beliefs of a Quaker family were tested during the American Civil War. For those wishing to watch it, it can be found on YouTube at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OAaoTMAy9aY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OAaoTMAy9aY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2936\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Friendly-Persuasion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2936 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Friendly-Persuasion-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Friendly-Persuasion-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Friendly-Persuasion-672x372.jpg 672w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Friendly-Persuasion.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title screen, 1956 William Wyler Production<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>More articles in this month&#8217;s newsletter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/reflections-during-a-zoom-meeting-3rd-april\/\">Reflections during a zoom meeting  3 April<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/meeting-for-worship-24-april\/\">Meeting for Worship 24 April<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/the-politics-of-place-and-some-local-witnessing\/\">The politics of place \u2013 and some local witnessing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/monthly-appeal-may-2022\/\">Monthly Appeal May 2022<\/a><\/li><li class=\"current\">&#8216;Friendly Persuasion&#8217;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/mutual-support-group-getting-older\/\">Mutual Support Group &#8211; &#8216;Getting Older&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/four-delusions-and-a-plea\/\">Four Delusions and a Plea<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/from-the-gardening-team\/\">Note From the Gardening Team<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/youth-children-and-families-development-worker\/\">Britain Yearly Meeting is Seeking a Youth, Children, and Families Development Worker<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/waiting\/\">Waiting<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/living-in-the-spirit-with-friends-from-other-meetings\/\">Living in the Spirit<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/in-penns-shadow-1680-1720-philadelphia-the-great-experiment\/\">In Penn&#8217;s Shadow (1680-1720) &#8211; Philadelphia: The Great Experiment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/addressing-environmental-issues-as-a-spiritual-community\/\">Addressing Environmental Issues as a Spiritual Community<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/the-quakers-the-whites-that-helped-the-slavery-abolishment\/\">The Quakers: The Whites that helped the slavery abolishment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/community-noticeboard-online-may-2022\/\">Community Noticeboard Online, May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/from-quaker-faith-and-practice-24-21\/\">From Quaker Faith and Practice 24.21<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/meetings-for-worship-may-2022\/\">Meetings for Worship May 2022<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">Back to May 2022 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 517 \u2022 May 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright 2022, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juliet Henderson Many of us present at 9:30 Meeting for Worship on Sunday 24 April in the Meeting House were moved and engaged by the ministries offered on the peace testimony by different Friends \u2013 all connected to the issue of the war in Ukraine. Mention was made of the 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/friendly-persuasion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Friendly Persuasion&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":2847,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-2022-05-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935\/revisions\/4278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}