Apr 13, 2021 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, Demilitarization, General, Human Rights, News, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has stood as a community of believers from all faiths and traditions in opposition to war and violence in all of its manifestations. FOR-USA was established as a branch of an emerging global movement that would soon become...
Mar 29, 2021 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Events, General, Human Rights, Interfaith, MLK, News, Nonviolence, Racial, Social Justice
Statement from RELIGIOUS LEADERS Breaking the Silence—an Intergenerational Call for Unity and Action “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed … without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world...
Feb 2, 2021 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Prayer, Social Justice
FOR-USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, was asked to offer up a prayer and reflections on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 (U.S. Inauguration Day for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) to an international online gathering....
Nov 23, 2020 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, General, Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
For the past two-and-a-half years it has been my privilege to support the Kings Bay Plowshares. They are seven disarmament activists who entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia by night on April 4, 2018 — the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
Nov 11, 2020 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, Human Rights
this song of praise and every voice never lifted say we can begin here, on scorched earth with the hollow bark of a barberry-leaved oak, where we sheltered as we mourned over 200,000 of our own. We go forward for the sake of the dream, this land, this sanctuary, for...
