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  • Q&A: Advocating Native Issues

    Background | November 1, 2021
    How can Friends be allies with the Native community?

    Native organizations most often ask for lobbying support. FCNL’s monthly Native American Legislative Update makes that easy. Some Quakers want to become effective community educators.

  • Speaking Truth to Power Out of Quaker Grounding

    Update | May 18, 2022
    On May 4, FCNL welcomed Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, associate professor of Anthropology at Emory University, to share his experiences with Quaker education growing up, his life’s journey with Quakerism, his thoughts on Quaker institutions, and his overall reflections on faith.

  • What You Can Do

    Background | January 6, 2017
    The beginning is knowing — really knowing — and acknowledging the history we share as Indians and non-Indians on this continent. Useful action flows from that place of recognition of how we stand with each other. Here are three sets of recommendations for your next steps.

  • Renewing Spiritual Strength, Reinvigorating Our Political Imagination

    Update | August 17, 2020
    I am eager to be with all of you during the FCNL Annual Meeting, a time when Friends from various branches of Quakerism can be together in fellowship, community, and worship. This is particularly important during these turbulent times both in our national politics and also within the Quaker community. I believe that our collective voice for peace and justice is no less essential at this time.

  • Tea Party-Aligned Group Helping Push Congress To Debate U.S. Role In Yemen War

    FCNL in the News | October 6, 2017

    And GOP leaders in the House who seek to defer to the Trump administration and avoid upsetting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other American partners invested in the war may attempt to prevent the vote from taking place altogether through arcane legislative maneuvers, said Kate Gould

  • Minute Concerning the War in Israel-Palestine: Montclair Monthly Meeting (NJ)

    Meeting Minute | May 30, 2024
    As members of the Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Montclair, New Jersey, we proclaim this Peace Testimony. We believe that there is that of God in every person. We believe that violence only perpetuates violence. Therefore, we oppose the use of violence, and we work to realize peace, together with justice and compassion, to heal this world.

  • Miriam Myers

    Person - Summer Intern 2017 | July 10, 2017

    Miriam comes to FCNL from Bryn Mawr College, where she majors in Political Science and minors in Spanish. She has interned at San Francisco’s City Hall and has interest in grassroots organizing, immigration and housing rights.

  • Discerning Priorities with Joy!

    Update | January 26, 2018
    Get inspiration and advice on discerning FCNL’s legislative priorities with your group. Share leadings and learnings with FCNL’s Quaker Field Secretary Christine Ashley and members of the Field Committee.

  • Videos by Presidential Candidates Focus on Faith, Hunger, and Poverty

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – More than 50 Christian leaders with the Circle of Protection asked all of the presidential candidates, Republican and Democratic, to send a short video explaining what they “would do as president to offer help and opportunity to poor and hungry people in the United States and around the world.”

  • FCNL's Lacina Onco Speaking in New Mexico

    Update | April 4, 2018
    New Mexico supporters of the Friends Committee on National Legislation have a special opportunity to meet Lacina Onco, Congressional Advocate on Native American Policy, on the weekend of March 10-11.