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The Faces of FOR: Shirah Moffatt-Darko

November 19, 2018 No Comments

A few months after the Ferguson Uprising began in August 2014, Shirah-Moffatt Darko traveled from Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania to New York’s Hudson Valley to attend a Fellowship of Reconciliation young adult nonviolence training program. That Campus Weekend initiative in January 2015 ultimately helped lead Shirah, now a Bucknell graduate, to enter into a dedicated life of spiritually-rooted service,

The Faces of FOR: JuJu Holton

November 8, 2018 No Comments

In the early fall of 2016, recent Guilford College graduate JuJu Holton signed up for a Facebook event organized by some friends in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The gathering, advertised as “Reading While Black,” was organized in response to the recent killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a black father who was reading a book in his car when he was

The Faces of FOR: JuJu Holton

November 8, 2018 No Comments

In the early fall of 2016, recent Guilford College graduate JuJu Holton signed up for a Facebook event organized by some friends in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The gathering, advertised as “Reading While Black,” was organized in response to the recent killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a black father who was reading a book in his car when he was

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These forces were

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These forces were

A surprise package from a spaceman to a prisoner on earth

October 22, 2018 No Comments

Jim Forest worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the 1960s and ’70s, and later for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). In 1969, Forest was in Waupun State Prison in Wisconsin, with 13 other anti-war activists, for burning U.S. military draft records from several draft board offices. On October 18, 2018, The Guardian newspaper published “A surprise package from