Quaker
Finding hope amid the rubble of our world is not naive. It is necessary.
By Bridget Moix — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — Our work advocating for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world will need to be continually renewed, not just this year but for many years ahead.
Sixty years later, King’s dream still calls
By Bridget Moix — August 31, 2023
(RNS) — Six decades after King proclaimed his dream that we would all be ‘free at last’ from racism and violence, Black lives are still threatened every day by race-based killings.
Nearly 200 religious colleges deemed ‘unsafe’ for LGBTQ students by Campus Pride
By Alejandra Molina — September 8, 2022
(RNS) — 'Campus Pride envisions campuses and a society free of anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice, bigotry, and hate,' said Campus Pride Executive Director Shane Windmeyer.
At the end of a mixed political year: Love, hope and faith abide
By Diane Randall — December 30, 2021
(RNS) — January 2021 brought the inauguration of a new president, but the violent insurrection at the Capitol laid bare the profound differences in expectations of government.
War or peace? For Iran and the United States, it’s time to decide.
By Diane Randall — July 19, 2021
(RNS) — A swift return to the JCPOA is our best and only option for dealing with Iran.
In ‘love thy neighbor’ Quakers and Catholics share a call to protect our common home
By Diane Randall and Alicia Cannon — June 22, 2020
(RNS) — Celebrating Pope Francis' Laudato Si, published five years ago, and its message that loving our planet first means loving its people.
At virtual Family Chapel, the ‘spiritual but not religious’ find community during pandemic
By Alejandra Molina — April 24, 2020
(RNS) — Traditional houses of worship have moved worship for their members online. For seekers and those unaffiliated with any faith, there is Family Chapel.
6 gifts of aging from Quaker writer Parker Palmer
By Jana Riess — July 20, 2018
(RNS) — Parker Palmer, now approaching 80, wants to remind readers of his new book that death is coming — and that aging brings unique gifts.
Gay civil rights activist, MLK mentor Bayard Rustin to be honored
By Renée K. Gadoua — June 30, 2015
(RNS) Years before the gay rights movement gained momentum, the openly gay black activist, a Quaker, advised Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolent protest tactics and organized the 1963 March on Washington.
Nantucket’s ‘Greater Light’ house holds clues to island’s Quaker past
By Kimberly Winston — June 25, 2014
NANTUCKET, Mass. (RNS) An eclectic house on this tourist island tells the story of two women who expressed Quakerism's "inner light" in converting an old barn to their dream house.
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