Quakers
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.
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery
By Julie L. Holcomb — February 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
The choice in Ukraine is simple: Peace, not war
By Bridget Moix — February 3, 2022
(RNS) — NATO expansion creates in Russia the very fears it is designed to allay in the alliance’s newest members.
Women are essential in the Bible. Now they’re in the Sunday readings
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — ‘What does it look like to tell the Good News through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news?’ asks the Rev. Wilda Gafney.
In military authorization vote, Quakers claim a victory
By Jack Jenkins — July 7, 2021
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We have some teams that insist every lobby visit start with Quaker silence,’ said a staffer at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Biden promised to end ‘forever wars.’ Then he bombed Syria.
By Diane Randall — March 12, 2021
(RNS) — The bombing took place as President Biden pushes for an extension of his war powers.
New START buys time on nukes. Now let’s start banning them altogether
By Diane Randall — February 8, 2021
(RNS) — Even with New START, we have a long road to achieve the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
Diane Randall: A civil and productive discourse will emerge, out of necessity
By Diane Randall — December 21, 2017
(RNS) We asked Diane Randall of the Friends Committee on National Legislation to consider what 2018 will mean for religion.
‘In the Heart of the Sea’ movie has Quakerism at its heart
By Kimberly Winston — December 9, 2015
(RNS) In the new disaster movie "In the Heart of the Sea," opening Dec. 11., religion matters in who lives -- and who gets eaten by his shipmates.
New theory connects a Native American prophet with Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
By Jana Riess — February 5, 2015
Peter Manseau's new book suggests that Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon may have been influenced by a Seneca religious prophet who died 200 years ago.
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