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  • Why I Have to Be In Washington this November

    Update | September 12, 2017
    I have to be in Washington, DC this year November 2-5 for the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Annual Meeting.

  • David Marshall Culp, Jr: In Memoriam

    Statement | June 14, 2023
    Our entire FCNL community is mourning the loss of our colleague and friend whose passion and leadership on issues of nuclear disarmament, the outdoors, and Washington, DC politics was second to none.

  • Quaker Peace Advocacy in Two Decades of War

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    Twenty years after the shock and grief of Sept. 11, 2001, its legacy lives on in U.S. policies of perpetual warfare.

  • Directors Agree to New Management of William Penn House

    Update | October 6, 2020
    For more than 50 years, FCNL and William Penn House have worked to advance Quaker witness on Capitol Hill. After several months of discernment and worship, the boards of directors of both organizations agreed that the FCNL Education Fund would assume governance and management of William Penn House effective Sept. 1, 2019.

  • Tumult, Turmoil and Truth: Vital Quaker Witness Today

    Event | April 4, 2019
    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.

  • Statement on the Peace Testimony and Ukraine

    Statement | November 2, 2022
    Quakers are a people who follow after peace, love and unity. Our peace testimony is our witness to the Truth as we experience it. We continue to support peacebuilding measures. We call on the governments of Ukraine, Russia, neighboring countries, the United States, NATO and the European Union, to explore all avenues—whether public or private—for a renewed conversation to address the human security needs of all the peoples and countries in the region, to help provide the basis for long term peace.

  • My Continuing FCNL Journey

    Update | January 27, 2023
    I became a Quaker because of FCNL. Part of that story is personal, tied to the people I have met through this work, including my fellow intern and now husband. FCNL has introduced me to communities and people who are now, quite literally, my family.

  • We Seek a Just Migration System

    Update | December 30, 2024

    The World We Seek guides the efforts of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

  • Minute on the U.S. Embargo of Cuba, New England Yearly Meeting

    Meeting Minute | February 28, 2025
    New England Quakers have become aware of the hardships to the Cuban people of the Embargo of the United States on the Cuban economy. Cuban Quakers are sensitive to the impacts on all Cubans, Quaker and non-Quaker. Cuban Quakers attempt to soften the effects on the people in their local communities.

  • Walking in the Light

    Statement | June 12, 2020
    We seek a world free of war and the threat of war We seek a society with equity and justice for all We seek a community where every person’s potential may be fulfilled We seek an earth restored