Quaker Activism

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Moving Closer to a Beloved Community: A Quaker Rethinks Israel-Palestine

Many Friends—and many Quaker meetings—have struggled to articulate, even to themselves, a clear response to the relentless violence against Palestinians…
Interview

How Quakers Can Rethink the Economy

“Whenever there are these attempts to think about alternative ways to live, or to create an economic system that is…
Interview

Reducing Violence from Within: Finding Quakerism Through Incarceration

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Moving Beyond a Minute

“I’m always thinking, is there more that I could be doing around the things that I care about?” Pamela Haines…
Quaker Activism

A Jewish Quaker Speaks On Pacifism

This week’s guest, who wishes to remain anonymous, describes herself as “a pacifist, a poet, a Jewish grandmother, [and] a bubbe.”…
Interview

Reparations: A Quaker’s Tool For Integrity

“Reparations is a tool for living in integrity,” Lucy Duncan, one of the co-founders of reparationWorks, says. For Quakers, that…
Quaker Activism

The Lasting Trauma of Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools

“Most Quakers still don’t know our history as participants in this enterprise of forced assimilation of Native people,” Paula Palmer…
Interview

A Calling to Prison Ministry and Antiracism Work

“It’s a struggle for me on an ongoing basis to wrestle with my own internalized racism,” Judy Meikle admits. As…
Interview

A Quaker Way Toward Ending Gun Violence

“There is so much overlap between advocacy for gun violence prevention and what Quakers believe in,” says Peter Murchison. “It’s…
Interview

Quaker Worship, Incarceration, and the Meaning of Silence

“I believe in silence and cherish silence, like most of us who worship,” says Ruth Brelsford. “However, I would say…
Ensemble

Healing From the Sin of Separation

After the members of New England Yearly Meeting approved a minute expressing their commitment to challenge White supremacy, they had…
Interview

Following a Spirit-Led Call for Activism

“For a while,” Tenaja Henson says, “my activism looked like showing up and holding space—and I think that is just…
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Moving Closer to a Beloved Community: A Quaker Rethinks Israel-Palestine
How Quakers Can Rethink the Economy
Reducing Violence from Within: Finding Quakerism Through Incarceration
Moving Beyond a Minute