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  • Emily Wirzba Published in Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability

    Update | June 14, 2019
    Congratulations to Emily Wirzba, FCNL Legislative Representative for Sustainable Energy and Environment, and our former Program Assistant for Communications, Emmett Witkovsky-Eldred! They wrote a chapter in the book Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability entitled “Lobbying for an Earth Restored: Friends Committee on National Legislation.”

  • Quakers Uprooting Racism

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    Join the online discussion with representatives of the Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism to learn more about the coalition, their vision of a transforming Religious Society of Friends, and plans for the 2024 cohort of Quakers Uprooting Racism.

  • "A Marriage of the Heart and Mind"

    Update | August 2, 2021

    In my role as FCNL’s Quaker Engagement intern, I had the pleasure of surveying and interviewing Friends throughout the country about their advocacy efforts and their connection to their faith.

  • Quaker Witness = Might and Action

    Update | November 6, 2017
    As the nation faces the latest mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Friends are offering thoughts and prayers, holding in the light all who are touched by these human tragedies. Out of this sense of spirit, Friends are also committing to action to stop this violence.

  • Change Through Comics

    Background | October 6, 2020
    Joey Hartmann-Dow spent her spring residency as a Friend in Washington creating a comic book. However, Seeks is not an ordinary comic book.

  • The World We Seek

    Page | March 3, 2025
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is a national, nonpartisan Quaker organization that lobbies Congress for peace, justice, and environmental stewardship. We seek a world free of war and the threat of war, a society with equity and justice for all, a community where every person’s potential may be fulfilled, and an earth restored.

  • Quakers Grapple with Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

    Background | March 30, 2022
    Following FCNL’s tradition of witnessing in solidarity with Native Americans, we are amplifying the efforts of Native advocates to formalize this truth-telling process in current legislation.

  • Quaker Lobby Urges Support for U.S.-North Korea Agreement

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC (June 12, 2018) – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) today congratulated President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for taking the first step in ending the war in the Korean Peninsula.

  • 75th Anniversary Celebration

    Update | August 17, 2020
    At a weekend of events at the Quaker Hill Conference Center and Earlham College, FCNL celebrated our 75th anniversary, honored the work of those who came before us, and looked forward to the years ahead of continued work towards the world we seek.

  • Beloved Community Interfaith Network, Prince George's County Meeting

    Event | June 12, 2020
    Join FCNL’s Hannah Evans for a discussion on working with an interfaith network to achieve positive change on federal immigration policy.