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  • Joint Quaker Statement on Burundi: Standing for Peace and Reconciliation

    Statement | September 29, 2016
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation has been working for constructive U.S. policy in order to respond to grievances and prevent future violence in Burundi. Elections scheduled for this summer have proven to be flashpoint for violent conflict.

  • Repealing IRA Clean Energy Tax Credits Would be a Blow to America’s Communities of Faith

    Update | 
    Faith communities around the country have used IRA tax credits to install clean energy projects or increase their building’s energy efficiency. Notably, the IRA allows for certain tax-exempt entities like houses of worship to receive rebates, or “direct pay,” for clean energy investments.” This provision has allowed Meetings in our own Quaker network to save money and redirect these resources to serve their communities, both materially and spiritually.

  • Ruthie Tippin

    Person | September 6, 2018

    Ruthie Tippin is a recorded Friends minister. She has served in pastoral ministry in West Branch, IA and most recently at First Friends Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

  • Quakers Walking to Washington for Justice

    Update | 

    People usually think of Quakers sitting silently in worship. While this is a common aspect of Friends’ religious practices, our community also has a commitment to living our faith in action.  

  • Quakers Working in the Legislature

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -

    FCNL’s Quaker Changemaker series has lifted up stories of Friends working in lobbying, advocacy, public office, and more—but we’ve yet to highlight stories of Quakers working in the legislative process as staff to an elected official.

  • Quakers Talk to Congress About Climate Change

    Background | September 28, 2016
    Why do these 300 Young Adult Friends care so much about climate change? In this QuakerSpeak video, they explain the political and spiritual importance of their advocacy.

  • Emancipation Without Freedom

    FCNL in the News | July 11, 2017

    Racism and white supremacy, the malignant cancers plaguing America today, are a joint system destroying black and brown bodies. In the past, the Klan did that destroying. Today, statistics do. Those statistics amount to the erasure of people.

  • Policing and Mass Incarceration: We Have Much Left to Do

    FCNL in the News | September 3, 2021
    Thoughts on Post-Civil War, Post-Civil Rights, Post-George Floyd American Justice

  • Quaker Process at FCNL

    FCNL in the News | June 13, 2023
    Countercultural Leadership for the World We Seek

  • Eight Quaker Organizations Draft and Sign Statement Saying Genocide Is Occurring in Gaza

    FCNL in the News | 
    After long periods of discernment, eight Quaker groups signed a joint statement calling Israel’s war in Gaza genocide.