Gathering Voices: Erica Ford–“Our work has shifted into teaching wellness and how people can survive mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices

CEO and Founder of LIFE Camp Inc, Erica Ford is an internationally-recognized and widely-respected peacemaker. She has been at the forefront of reducing youth and community violence in New York City and beyond for over 30 years.

Gathering Voices: Gathering Voices: Sr. Simone Campbell “We can make change if I have a sense that we are connected.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices

    Sr. Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and the Leader of Nuns on the Bus. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In...

Gathering Voices: Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen–“To build a bridge we must make friends with people we disagree with.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, LGBTQ+

Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen is the executive director of Parity, a NYC-based national nonprofit that works at the intersection of faith and LGBTQ+ concerns and the director of Blessed by Difference, a project that seeks to promote curious and collaborative bridging...

Gathering Voices Amy Cantrell–“I’ve never seen things so dire.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Rev. Amy Cantrell lives and moves and has her being in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved is an intersectional community of people from the streets and margins love each other and together work to create solutions to homelessness, poverty, and...

Gathering Voices: Liz Moore–“We are the ones who can define what is possible.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Liz Moore is the director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, where she began her activism in PJALS’ youth group as a Deer Park high school student after looking up “peace” in the phone book. She worked as an organizer and educator in unions and...

The Fellowship of Reconciliation and Bayard Rustin: An Amends

Aug 27, 2020 | Civil Rights, Community

To honor the twin anniversaries of Bayard Rustin’s death (August 24, 1987) and the March on Washington (August 28, 1963) that Rustin co-organized, we are republishing this piece that originally appeared in the centennial edition of Fellowship magazine in 2015. A...