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  • Grace in Generational Transition: Raising up Young Adult Leaders

    Update | November 5, 2021
    What does the next generation of leadership look like in the Religious Society of Friends? What is the role of current leaders in Quaker meetings and organizations in nurturing that leadership?
  • Quakers Uniting for Migration Justice

    Update | December 30, 2020
    The Quaker Statement on Migration, released in December, cuts across the specific missions of five Quaker organizations to unite on a common concern for migration justice.
  • Strengthening Quaker Community

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series | January 25, 2021
    Join us for a lively conversation about how advocacy and other forms of collective action can bring and hold us together. We’ll focus particularly on what we’ve learned about ways that virtual gathering and action can strengthen community bonds and spiritual experiences.
  • Joint Quaker Statement on Burundi: Standing for Peace and Reconciliation

    Statement | September 29, 2016
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation has been working for constructive U.S. policy in order to respond to grievances and prevent future violence in Burundi. Elections scheduled for this summer have proven to be flashpoint for violent conflict.
  • Ruthie Tippin

    Person | September 6, 2018

    Ruthie Tippin is a recorded Friends minister. She has served in pastoral ministry in West Branch, IA and most recently at First Friends Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

  • How Does the Heroes Act Align with FCNL's Priorities?

    Update | September 9, 2020
    The House passed the Heroes Act (H.R. 6800), a comprehensive bill to further address the COVID-19 pandemic and economic fallout. FCNL has been lobbying Congress to include many policy provisions in the next COVID-19 bill.
  • There’s No Weapons System that Can Defeat COVID-19

    Background | October 6, 2020
    Dr. Alex Stark is clerk of the FCNL policy committee. She works as senior researcher at New America Foundation. Dr. Stark worked as a research fellow at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative and the United States Institute of Peace. She was an FCNL Young Fellow, 2011-2012.
  • One Last Chance: Congress is Preparing the Most Impactful Bill of the Year

    Update | September 8, 2020
    We’re at a decision point. As unemployment, hunger, and housing insecurity rise, Congress is negotiating the single most important bill for the remainder of 2020.
  • Issue Brief: U.S. Policy on Landmines

    Background | July 14, 2022
    Anti-personnel landmines are “designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will incapacitate, injure or kill one or more persons.” As they are not able to distinguish between civilians and combatants, are hard to safely destroy or remove, and often fail to self-destruct or self-deactivate, landmines continue to inflict human suffering long after a conflict ends.
  • Administration Moves to Address Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Congress Must Act

    Update | October 27, 2020
    FCNL Welcomes President Donald Trump’s decision to establish a federal task force to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. However, the taskforce alone is not enough.