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Reclaim the Name of God

As the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has followed the rise of right wing nationalist ideologies that co-opt religious language and imagery in support of their poisonous agendas. We launched the

March 29, 2023 No Comments

FOR’s Don Mosley on friend and colleague President Jimmy Carter

For over 40 years Don Mosley — who served as FOR-USA’s national chairman in the 1980s — has been a close friend and colleague of President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady, Rosalynn. In early December 2022, knowing that President Carter’s health was

February 20, 2023 No Comments

Faith Leaders and Organizations Call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine

SIGN ON STATEMENT: As people of faith and conscience, believing in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine. In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First

November 14, 2022 No Comments

Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition, book talk with Rima Vesely-Flad

Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD, discusses her new book “Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation”

April 12, 2022 No Comments

Wink

Awarded to divinity students or emerging leaders focused on nonviolence or whose work creates change and challenges power, the Walter Wink and June Keener Wink Fellowship honors the life and legacy of FOR member Walter Wink (1935-2012) and the ongoing

February 27, 2022 2 Comments

#Occupy@10: An oral history — Interfaith activists reflect on Occupy’s impact 10 years later

September 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest that took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for two tumultuous months in 2011. The action began with little fanfare on September 17, 2011, but soon captured

September 14, 2021 No Comments

If we truly honored Juneteenth, we would end the exception in the 13th amendment

In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was a Juneteenth celebratory greeting: “We proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery finally came to an end throughout the South — historically a monumental feat

June 19, 2021 No Comments

Alternate Reality Show Trial

The Senate has spoken and has finally certified what we have long known: an overwhelming number of Republicans in what is touted as our nation’s most august legislative body are dangerously incapable of publicly affirming reality. They have chosen party

February 17, 2021 No Comments

“When We Breathe Together”

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

February 2, 2021 No Comments

Martin Luther King Jr. on America’s “obnoxious peace”

We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year at a time when our nation has come to a fork in the road and the fate of our democracy depends on the path we take. Just 12 days removed from

January 18, 2021 No Comments

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