Embracing mutual aid is not merely an act of service but a spiritual imperative for contemporary Quakers to live out their testimonies in transformative action.
Category: community
Need new peace movement now
We can't allow our focus to be hijacked into dwelling on this atrocity. We must not only continue our peace efforts, but look around for others who share our beliefs that we haven't, for whatever reason, connected with, yet. Build a new peace movement, built on years of work we have already done. But now look more globally for peacemakers to join us, for us to join them, at this horrible time.
Peace
Reading Charles Eisenstein's recent post 'Peace' this morning has caused me to re-examine my life's work for peace.
The Modern Face of Empire
I've often thought about the parallels between the settler-colonialism that is on continuous public display of Israel's unrelenting attacks in Gaza and the West Bank, supported by billions of dollars in aid and weapons from this country.
The center cannot hold
At the collective level, a loss of sensemaking erodes shared cultural and value structures and renders us incapable of generating the collective wisdom necessary to solve complex societal problems like those described above. When that happens the centre cannot hold. James Allen
Stories of faith in action
I've been thinking a lot about a passage from Scot Miller's book, Gospel of the Absurd. He writes that intentional non-violent responses to specific situations are not usual "NOT because they are too difficult an ethic to maintain, but because we do not live in communities that seek out opportunities to embody such faith on a larger scale."
An Opportunity
We’ve been given the opportunity to live out our ideals, to fight for our values, to be the community and the people we always said we were.There are Home Depots all over the country. There are many other appropriate places to protest. Army tanks will soon be parading in the Capital. Go there if you can, and say no. Our friends, neighbors, and coworkers are being targeted. Our communities and our country are under siege. It’s time for us to defend them. Chris Newman, Truthout
Teach your children well
Who is teaching our children? What are they being taught? This is suddenly more important in these increasingly authoritarian times. When there are nearly daily escalations of serious consequences for speaking the truth. When there are massive efforts to suppress the truth and silence those speaking it.
Our Moral Moment Comes to Congress
It’s always been one of my great dreams to come and be at a Quaker Friends meeting, even if it meant just sittin’ and bein’ quiet. And that’s because I know enough about history to know about the Religious Society of Friends and the abolition campaigns that began long before the end of slavery in Britain. Rev William J. Barber II
CJNV and Tent of Nations
When Daoud was asked how Jews around the world could support his family, he replied: come replant the trees with us in a show of solidarity, to demonstrate that the Israeli Army’s bulldozers don’t represent your Jewish values.