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Paul Ryan supports campaign to stop Islamophobia while backing Trump’s hate-fueled bid for president

June 2, 2016 No Comments

Rep. Paul Ryan publicized his endorsement of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign within moments of hosting a meeting with staff and members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, along with supporters of FOR’s #GiveRefugeesRest campaign, a national campaign to end Islamophobia. The move further exposed the emptiness of Ryan’s protestations regarding the vitriolic campaign of his party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, and damaged efforts to create interfaith, multi-partisan

Join us in urging Speaker Ryan to help #EndIslamophobia

May 31, 2016 No Comments

Your support of the #GiveRefugeesRest campaign to end Islamophobia and welcome refugees continues to build incredible momentum. This week, your expressed concerns will be shared directly with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. This February, I led a delegation of FOR staff, members, and allies, including five refugees and immigrants, to Speaker Ryan’s office in Washington, DC. We brought your deep concerns about rising attacks

Join us in urging Speaker Ryan to help #EndIslamophobia

May 31, 2016 No Comments

Your support of the #GiveRefugeesRest campaign to end Islamophobia and welcome refugees continues to build incredible momentum. This week, your expressed concerns will be shared directly with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. This February, I led a delegation of FOR staff, members, and allies, including five refugees and immigrants, to Speaker Ryan’s office in Washington, DC. We brought your deep concerns about rising attacks

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Daniel Berrigan, Presente! A personal reflection on family, faith, & action

May 24, 2016 No Comments

“I don’t even know whether I want to be remembered. That doesn’t really enter into my kind of scheme of life. I was thinking maybe I would like to have on my tombstone something like, ‘Thank God it was never dull.’” —Daniel Berrigan, from “Taking Peacemaking Seriously” by John Griffin, Fellowship magazine, 2006 Thanks to the generous support of friends and family,

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Coming out with love for the United Methodist Church

May 9, 2016 No Comments

Yesterday, 111 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender United Methodist clergypersons came out in an historic open letter to the denomination. Incredibly still in 2016, the United Methodist Church does not ordain openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, the last of the mainline Protestant denominations to fail to affirm this essential equality. I have been a part of the leadership group planning this

In honor of my father #StopTheHarm

April 19, 2016 No Comments

write to you from New York City, to which I traveled 2,000 miles to join five other FOR global leaders at the first-ever United Nations Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS). This UN summit has deep personal meaning for me because my family bears the scars of the terrible misconception that policing and the stigmatization of addiction can cure a societal illness.