Essay: If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, asks why destroying enemies is a higher priority than feeding, clothing and teaching children?…
Church schools: First Pope, now US churches face boarding school reckoning
PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, reports on how US churches are preparing for the handing down of a report looking at the loss of life and the enduring traumas of the US boarding school system…
Essay: Whose vote counts? Whose doesn’t?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says the push for voting rights is a moral imperative and requires the urgent passage of nationwide voting rights legislation…
Essay: The choice in Ukraine is simple – peace, not war
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says war is never inevitable…
Essay: At the end of a mixed political year – Love, hope and faith abide
As she leaves her role, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Quaker lobby group Friends Committee on National Legislation, looks, in an article published by Religion News Service, at the past year and the ways political life in America has changed in the past decade…
Essay: Build Back Better or quit? Time to choose
In an article published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation – a national, non-partisan Quaker lobby for peace, justice and the environment, says the Build Back Better plan is truly “ground-breaking”…
Essay: What 20 years (and counting) of the war on terror must teach us
In an article published by Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Friends Committee on National Legislation, says it’s “clearer than ever the global war on terror has been an unmitigated humanitarian and strategic disaster”…
Essay: As billionaires grow richer, children go to sleep hungry
DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, urges US Congress to take up what she calls an “historic opportunity to permanently invest in the future of our children”…
Essay: How to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Sign the nuclear weapons treaty
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, on the need for the ongoing push to ban nuclear weapons…
Essay: War or peace? For Iran and the United States, it’s time to decide
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, writes about why a “swift return” to the Iran nuclear deal is the only option for dealing with Iran…