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Celebrating Juneteenth and Continuing the Work
Confronting racism and building a more just and equitable world is ongoing work that requires reckoning with our country’s past and transforming our future.Powerful Beyond Measure: Trusting the Call to Leadership Exercising Our Citizenship
Assuming there may be people in this Meeting who might find dissonance between Quakerism and leadership, consider three key practices of both our faith and of leadership: listening, trusting, and acting.Meeting Minutes as Advocacy Tools
In Quaker meetings and churches, meeting minutes represent the wording of a decision or an agreed upon action to be taken by the meeting or church as a whole. FCNL recognizes the vitality of minutes as advocacy tools and as a means of communicating to members of Congress how a body of their constituents is thinking and acting on a particular issue.Q&A: Bringing Together People from the Spiritual Margins
Dr. Hamm is one of the world’s leading experts on Quakers in America. He recently retired from Earlham College, where he taught U.S. and Quaker history and was curator of its collections of Quaker materials. Dr. Hamm is a member of West Richmond Friends Meeting in the New Association of Friends.Increase the Peace Networking Reception
Join us for “Increase The Peace,” a reception hosted by the Friends Committee on National Legislation as part of our larger Violence Interrupter Symposium.
Everyone Deserves Protection—Regardless of Immigration Status
These are difficult times for everyone. But immigrant communities are facing particularly severe risk and hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.Bridget Moix
Bridget Moix is the fifth General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). She also leads two other Quaker organizations, affiliated with FCNL: Friends Place on Capitol Hill and FCNL Education Fund.Actions for Peace: A Reflection on the 2023 International Day of Peace
Today marks the International Day of Peace. It offers us an opportunity for reflection on—and rededication to—the principles of peace and the work of building a just and non-violent world. This year, that opportunity feels both vital and urgent.People of Faith Will Not Stand By Idly Amid Historically Low Refugee Arrivals
FCNL joined more than 750 faith leaders and organizations reiterating our support of robust refugee resettlement and protection to members of Congress and the administration.Carbon Pricing as a Solution to Climate Change
FCNL believes that carbon pricing is one of many essential tools that Congress should use to address climate change and shift towards a clean energy economy.