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World Religious Leaders Travel in Emergency Just Peace Mission to Pray in Kyiv

May 23, 2022 No Comments

WARSAW, POLAND– A high-level delegation of religious leaders will travel to Kyiv in an emergency intervention seeking to contribute to ending aggression against Ukraine, the bombing of Ukrainian cities, and to pray for a just peace. The leaders will meet in Warsaw, Poland, and travel 14 hours by bus to Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 24 and return to Warsaw on

They Are Us: Buffalo and the Sanctity of Whiteness

May 18, 2022 1 Comment

The racially-motivated act of hate on Saturday in Buffalo, New York, allegedly committed by an 18-year-old white supremacist, is being called the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this year. It was the 198th mass shooting in 2022, and we aren’t even finished with May. Is it possible to measure the sickness of a society that is forced to

Robert Aldridge, ¡Presente!

May 17, 2022 No Comments

Robert Creston Aldridge, recipient of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in 1981, was born at his home in Watsonville, California, on April 15, 1926, at a time when home births were a common part of life. He died peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, on April 29, 2022, at his home in Santa Clara, California, his

On Sweden Joining NATO: A Letter from FOR-USA to SweFOR

May 16, 2022 No Comments

Dear sisters and brothers in the Sweden FOR, Our hearts break for you and your country. Sweden’s expected application to join NATO is a devastating blow for our shared global peace movement. Sweden’s 200 years of stated neutrality and military non-alignment have long offered a sign that nation-states can play a critical role as well. We join the Sweden

“Reaching Beyond Prison Walls” Book Talk with Eric Corson

May 7, 2022 No Comments

Eric Corson spent four decades as executive director of Prisoner Visitation and Support from 1977 to 2017. In this new book, “Reaching Beyond Prison Walls,” edited by Corson, interviews with and writings from

Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

April 25, 2022 2 Comments

Press Release More than 20 national and regional faith-based organizations have sent a letter to President Biden and members of Congress urging support and focus on a kind of diplomacy that is willing to compromise for the sake of saving lives. It also urges the support and amplification of creative nonviolent resistance actions rather than maintaining the killing and escalation

Wink Fellow Conversations–Kafi Dixon, “A Reckoning in Boston”

December 7, 2021

FOR’s Inaugural Wink Fellow, Dr. Fernando Ona, had the opportunity to speak with Co-Producer Kafi Dixon about her documentary “A Reckoning in Boston”

FOR USA’s Statement on Passage of UN Treaty Outlawing Nuclear Weapons

October 27, 2020

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) joins peace-loving people around the world in celebrating the ratification this week of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Passage of the treaty happened on October 24, 2020, an already auspicious date —

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Prayer for 2021

February 3, 2021

To abolish the death penalty, we must create a movement that is grounded in relationship building and truth telling.

US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara is a duplicitous power move

December 14, 2020

With less than six weeks remaining in his presidency, President Donald Trump extended his legacy of fomenting division and sowing the seeds of instability, discord, and violence into a new foreign policy realm.

9/11 Remembering and Learning at FOR

September 9, 2021

At the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s national headquarters on the banks of the Hudson River, our interfaith staff were gathered for our weekly Tuesday morning meditation. It was September 11, 2001. We had planned an orientation afterward for four young adults

Revolutionary Nonviolence and Dialectical Thinking

October 18, 2017

By Matt Meyer Dialectics can help sharpen our strategies, intensify our struggles, and push us past seemingly intractable odds. Simply put, dialectics are the ways in which our many

Book Review: “At Play in the Lion’s Den” by Jim Forest

March 22, 2019

In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are

Sign on to stand with Rep. John Lewis

January 18, 2017

In the last few days, our friend and Fellowship of Reconciliation lifetime member Rep. John Lewis has come under attack for humbly yet powerfully speaking truth to power. In his

Water Protectors Prevail!

December 5, 2016

Yesterday was a day that Standing Rock Sioux tribal elders had called for a national interfaith day of prayer. Those prayers rolled into celebrations as news was received that the

Washington is listening: #GiveRefugeesRest

February 10, 2016

Nearly one month ago, we launched Give Refugees Rest to end Islamophobia and welcome refugees. And I’m happy to report to you that elected officials are listening — and we have gained such

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

January 18, 2021

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year at a time when our nation has come to a fork in the road

FOR speaks at UN’s Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

September 28, 2020

Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson participates in a panel discussion sponsored by UNFOLD ZERO on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Fellow participants include politicians, peace activists and artists from around the world, including the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP and musician

Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

April 25, 2022

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

February 28, 2019

Vijay Prashad’s insightful post (“Notes from the Streets of Venezuela: The People Are Resilient in the Face of Intervention,” Feb. 26, 2019, Independent Media Institute via CommonDreams) reveals some vital on-the-ground realities in Venezuela today. It almost perfectly reflects my

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They Are Us: Buffalo and the Sanctity of Whiteness

The racially-motivated act of hate on Saturday in Buffalo, New York, allegedly committed by an 18-year-old white supremacist, is being called the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this

May 18, 2022 1 Comment

The Singing of Angels

“Life Is Saved By The Singing of Angels” by Howard Thurman There must always remain in every person’s lifeSome place for the singing of angels,Some place for that which in

December 16, 2021 1 Comment

Climate & Justice Conversations–Leslie Cagan

The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021. In light of this important event we’ve asked FOR

November 4, 2021 1 Comment

Climate & Justice Conversations–Tom Wakely

The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021. In light of this important event we’ve asked FOR

November 2, 2021 No Comments

Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson appointed President of Auburn Seminary

Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, FOR-USA Executive Director, appointed President of Auburn Seminary It is with bittersweet emotions that the Fellowship of Reconciliation – USA (FOR-USA) announces that Rev. Dr. Emma

October 6, 2021 No Comments

Lies, betrayal and the storming of the Capitol

Embed from Getty Images Lies have consequences. The insurrection that was attempted as the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives gathered to certify the election results on January 6, 2021

January 7, 2021 No Comments

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World Religious Leaders Travel in Emergency Just Peace Mission to Pray in Kyiv

Robert Aldridge, ¡Presente!

On Sweden Joining NATO: A Letter from FOR-USA to SweFOR

Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

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Prayer for 2021

9/11 Remembering and Learning at FOR

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Revolutionary Nonviolence and Dialectical Thinking

Book Review: “At Play in the Lion’s Den” by Jim Forest

Sign on to stand with Rep. John Lewis

Water Protectors Prevail!

Washington is listening: #GiveRefugeesRest

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Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

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Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson appointed President of Auburn Seminary

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