In a pivotal election season, what are Friends called to do? What might letting our lives speak for peace, justice, and love look like now? On October 30, join us for a conversation with two Friends who have been wrestling with these questions.
- Emily Provance is a Quaker traveling minister from Fifteenth Street Meeting in New York City. She has been traveling widely among Friends this year to speak about the peacebuilding discipline of election violence prevention. Her ministry is focused on helping people who are very different work together on things they all care about. She has a deep faith in the power of relationships as the most reliable pathway to peace and to change.
- Diane Randall is a member of Friends Meeting, Washington in Washington, DC. She served as FCNL’s General Secretary from 2011-2021. She carries a concern for how Friends’ faith and practice is manifested in public ministry, especially in this challenging era of social and political conflict. She serves on the steering committee of the Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends concerning democracy in the United States. She also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Earlham School of Religion and the board of Thee Quaker Project.
Building on their October 1 conversation on the Thee Quaker podcast, Emily and Diane will discuss their own journey with this work, how they are preparing for this election and its aftermath, and what role Friends might play individually and collectively in the face of ongoing threats to the integrity of our democracy.