Pages tagged "Racial Justice"

All Our Histories

• Authored by:
• Susan Cozzens

To the editor: Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge begins her article in the May/June 2022 issue of Western Friend with her grandfather, modeling the integrity she is seeking from Quakers in North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM). She calls attention to one set of family histories in NPYM, which she calls a “settler-majority” community. I am writing to remind us that there are other family histories in NPYM, too.

On Normality (July 2022)

Are We Ready for Anti-Racism?

• Authored by:
• Tommee Carlisle

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. (John 3:18)

On Freedom (January 2022)

Beloved Community (abridged)

• Authored by:
• Marlene Coach-Eisenstein,
• Keith Runyan,
• Peni Hall

 

On Cooperation (September 2022)

Brother Outside: Bayard Rustin (video resources) (library item)

Creating Resilience for Climate Justice (unabridged) (library item)

Deep Hope in Optimystical Times (abridged)

• Authored by:
• Carl Magruder

For decades, I’ve been talking publicly about the gathering catastrophes of climate change and social injustice, and about the decline of the Society of Friends. Sounds pretty gloomy, I know. My day job as a palliative care chaplain at a large urban hospital entails sitting at the feet of those very powerful teachers named in Buddhist tradition: old age, sickness, and death.

On Cooperation (September 2022)

Embedded in Two Cultures with AFSC

• Authored by:
• Graciela Martinez

My first job at the American Friends Service Committee was in 1965, when Self-Help Enterprises was being created. This was also my first real experience working with white people, as opposed to working for them, although at the tender age of nineteen, I still did not realize that. I have gone through many emotions – some even tearful – as I recalled my youth and my work while writing this article. As the daughter of a farmworker, I have been confronted with the typical things around racism, feminism, classism, etc., during my youth and into my adult life. It was, in fact, not too many years ago when I decided not to let those things rule my life.

On Balance (May 2017)

Friends, Racial Justice, and Policing

• Authored by:
• Cherice Bock

The following text is a compilation of excerpts from the Worship Leader presentation that Cherice Bock made to the General Committee of the Friends Committee on National Legislation at their annual meeting in Novmeber 2020.

On Debt (July 2021)

From Empire to Beloved Community (audio) (library item)

God’s Loving Eyes

• Authored by:
• Sandy Kewman

We are seen by God’s loving eyes.  The greatest spiritual battle begins – and never ends – with the reclaiming of our chosenness. Long before any human being saw us, we are seen by God’s loving eyes. Long before anyone heard us cry or laugh, we are heard by our God who is all ears for us. Long before any person spoke to us in this world, we are spoken to by the voice of eternal love.                         – Henri Nouwen (1993)

On Cooperation (September 2022)