Skip to main content
661 - 670 of 1752 results
  • Join Fellow Quaker Advocates: Take Action Today

    Background | June 12, 2020
    These are urgent times.
  • Quaker Meeting Aligns with Nuclear Treaty

    Background | June 25, 2021
    Friend Timmon Wallis approached the meeting with an idea: Northampton could become the first faith community in the United States to come into compliance with the Nuclear Ban Treaty.
  • Voting Rights, Racial Justice, and the Quaker Call to Action

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    FCNL’s Director for Justice Reform José Woss and local voting rights advocate Jaycee Brown will dialogue on their efforts to expand access to the ballot box through policy advocacy and local organizing. FCNL’s Bobby Trice will moderate the conversation.
  • SLW Coverage: Ms. Davis-Walsh goes to Washington

    FCNL in the News | September 11, 2019

    Recent Kennett High grad Fiona Davis-Walsh spent part of her spring break in the nation’s capital lobbying lawmakers about immigration.

  • Joe Volk

    Person - Former Staff | June 14, 2023
    Joe Volk is an FCNL Executive Secretary Emeritus, having served in that role from 1990 to 2011. Currently, he serves on the General Committee of FCNL, the Corporation Committee of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Corporation Committee of Haverford College, and is a trustee of the board of Wilmington College (OH).
  • Quaker Meeting Minute on Israel-Palestine Conflict

    Update | December 13, 2017
    The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has worked for more than a century to promote a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
  • July Quaker Changemaker Event: Advocacy and the Arts

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series | 
    We’ve seen how creative advocacy like baking peace dove cookies and singing to senators has brought imagination, heart, and humanity to Friends’ advocacy with FCNL—and how it has led to major breakthroughs in relationship-building with members of Congress. FCNL’s July Quaker Changemakers event will elevate creative advocacy in a discussion about music and political change.
  • Building Bridges, Building a Movement: Loving Thy Neighbor in 2020

    Event | December 19, 2019
    Love is hard, but Scripture is clear. We are called to love our neighbors - all our neighbors - without exception.
  • FCNL Decries Attack on U.S. Capitol By Violent Mob

    Statement | January 7, 2021
    We are appalled by the violence shown by demonstrators who stormed the U.S. Capitol today.
  • Quaker Peacebuilding Efforts Before Kenya's Elections

    Update | August 17, 2020
    According to David Bucura, coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative, “Kenya is in tension and is hot in some places now. There is big tension before the elections.” AGLI is a project of the Friends Peace Teams which supports peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa.