Quakers
We need practical — and humane — migration solutions
By Bridget Moix — March 19, 2024
(RNS) — Sincere bipartisan negotiations and solutions on immigration law are overdue.
The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools
By Bridget Moix — November 15, 2023
(RNS) — As a Quaker, I find it painful to face our history of participation in these schools. But we cannot live our faith with integrity if we do not.
Siding with peace in the Middle East
By Bridget Moix — October 30, 2023
(RNS) — The future for Palestinians and Israelis is being erased each passing day.
Congress, do not buy more death with my tax dollars
By Aura Kanegis — October 19, 2023
(RNS) — Rather than double down on failed strategies, it is time to end investments in war and occupation.
Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
By Luis Andres Henao — August 24, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, documents related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools have been largely unstudied, as they exist in remote and dispersed collections with limited access.
Protect people. Raise the debt limit and cut wasteful Pentagon spending.
By Bridget Moix — May 25, 2023
(RNS) — For too long, the Pentagon has been treated as a sacred cow in budget negotiations.
Celebrating our shared humanity by building peace
By Bridget Moix — May 3, 2023
(RNS) — War is never inevitable.
Will Congress keep hanging humanity on the Pentagon’s iron cross?
By Bridget Moix — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — For 2024, President Biden requested the largest military budget in history — $886 billion.
A litany for Ukraine: Pray — and act — for peace
By Bridget Moix — March 1, 2023
(RNS) — One year into the expanded war in Ukraine, it is clear a military approach will not bring peace.
Reclaiming our democracy is a matter of faith
By Bridget Moix — January 26, 2023
(RNS) — The gulf between Democrats and Republicans feels unbridgeable, so why bother engaging with the institution at all?
Environmental justice must lie at the heart of climate action
By Bridget Moix — October 25, 2022
(RNS) — The IRA is a long-awaited step forward, but there is still much work to be done.
Will Congress support God’s children?
By Bridget Moix — October 3, 2022
(RNS) — The Child Tax Credit helped lift millions of children out of poverty. Why would we abandon it?
Despite its failings, the global war on terror grinds on
By Bridget Moix — August 24, 2022
(RNS) — Two decades deep, the annual number of terror attacks worldwide has significantly increased, terror groups have proliferated across the globe, and more than 900,000 people have been killed.
America’s original sin must be addressed, not ignored
By Bridget Moix — August 3, 2022
(RNS) — The tragedy of slavery can never be erased or undone, but it must be addressed and atoned for on a national level.
A reckoning on Native boarding schools is long overdue
By Bridget Moix — June 13, 2022
(RNS) — The more we learn, the more we see gaping holes between our country’s traditional narrative and the realities of how our nation was built and who paid the costs.
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