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A Quaker Reflection on Annual Meeting 2020: Fierce Love
I am personally very dedicated to the national Quaker lobby organization, the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Tumult, Turmoil and Truth: Vital Quaker Witness Today
In a tumultuous world filled with turmoil and abounding in lies and half-truths, the voice of Quakers in the public sphere is needed more than ever. Quakers have gifts for witness, standing for peace, nonviolence, protection of our planet, concern for the oppressed, neglected, and scorned.Quaker Lobby Joins Global X Disengagement Movement
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, along with nine other Quaker organizations around the world, announced today their disengagement from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Globally, this move within Quaker circles has come to be known as the eXodus and it has been a subject of much discernment.Quakers Grapple with Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Following FCNL’s tradition of witnessing in solidarity with Native Americans, we are amplifying the efforts of Native advocates to formalize this truth-telling process in current legislation.Diane Randall Speaks at Quaker Fundraisers Gathering
Diane Randall was happy for the opportunity to give the keynote address at Friends Fiduciary’s 2018 Quaker Fundraisers Gathering on September 30, 2018 .Minute on Quaker Colonialism: Baltimore Yearly Meeting
We express our sorrow as a religious community for our history of participation in cultural erasure, abuse, patronization and subjugation of Indigenous Peoples. We commit to work together with descendants bearing the burden of those harms towards revelation of avenues to atone for past wrongs and achieve right relations going forward.Quakers Know Prisons from the Inside Out
From the earliest days of their formation as the Religious Society of Friends, Quakers were imprisoned as they followed their evangelist leadings. Their crimes were blasphemy, public speaking, refusal to swear oaths, and disturbing the peace, among other distressing behaviors.Young Adult Quakers, Making Good Trouble!
Our Young Adult Friends are movers and shakers in the world. Join the conversation over Zoom video conference and hear stories about how Witness is taking shape in the world today with new leadership and an abundance of possibilities.How Can Quakers Dismantle the Racism-Militarism Paradigm?
For many of us who are Quakers, we have held the peace testimony as an article of faith.Why Quakers Value Process Over Outcome
In this QuakerSpeak video, former FCNL Clerk Dorsey Green explores her experience clerking the General Committee. She explains the difference between everyone agreeing and finding the sense of the meeting.