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The Peace Testimony
This text is excerpted from a speech by Dick Hathaway given at an interfaith service in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 1, 2004. For the...
This Week in the World: Doomsday Clock Moved to 90 Seconds
This week, the Doomsday Clock moved forward ten seconds, placing us just 90 seconds from midnight. The symbolic clock, set annually by experts at...
This Week in the World: U.S. Hits Debt Limit
Yesterday, the United States hit the debt ceiling. The U.S. Treasury Department responded quickly, taking steps to avoid a default and buy Congress...
This Week in the World – January 13
For two decades, Toffiq al-Bihani has been imprisoned by the U.S. government at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. During his internment, he...
January 6 – This Week in the World
Two years ago today, a violent mob of election-denying white supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol at the encouragement of former President Donald...
Faith Leaders and Lawmakers Call for Action on Child Poverty
“For many of us, this is a season of miracles — the miracle of Jesus’ birth, the miracle of Hanukkah. But expanding the Child Tax Credit? That...
Dec 22 – This Week in the World
The year is winding down, and with it, the work of the 117th Congress (2021-2022). Lawmakers are nearing passage of an omnibus spending bill to fund...
Our Work for Peace is Making a Difference
Just weeks after the Department of Defense failed its fifth consecutive audit, Congress is set to pass the largest Pentagon budget in history in...
Being a Quaker in Today’s World
This is a Patheos interview with Laura Mancuso at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. During this video, a series of...
Quaker Worship
Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit . . . And then thou wilt feel the principle of God. ~ George Fox, Early Quaker