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Faithful Witness Wednesdays

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FCNL, Sojourners, and partners from the Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC) are organizing a series of faithful witness events at the Capitol every Wednesday in March, beginning March 5. These multi-faith vigils will call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage in upholding its Article 1 powers and preventing executive overreach. Our nation faces an escalating threat of a constitutional crisis fueled by the Trump administration’s overreach and unconstitutional actions. A lack of leadership in Congress has allowed this crisis to grow, as it cedes its role as a coequal branch of government.

The faith community will be raising a prophetic and pastoral call to Congressional leaders to serve as a check and balance to advance the common good. These nonpartisan vigils will speak truth to power, highlighting what’s at stake and the communities already harmed. They will feature faith leaders from diverse traditions offering inspirational prayers and calls for faithful action.

Register at SOJO.NET/WITNESS to join us either in-person or virtually. Together we can provide a Faithful Witness by speaking truth to power about this mounting crisis and about communities who are already being harmed!

    1. Livestreaming link
    2. Link to event page on Sojourners website
    3. Registration page link

 

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Faithful Witness Wednesdays

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FCNL, Sojourners, and partners from the Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC) are organizing a series of faithful witness events at the Capitol every Wednesday in March, beginning March 5. These multi-faith vigils will call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage in upholding its Article 1 powers and preventing executive overreach. Our nation faces an escalating threat of a constitutional crisis fueled by the Trump administration’s overreach and unconstitutional actions. A lack of leadership in Congress has allowed this crisis to grow, as it cedes its role as a coequal branch of government.

The faith community will be raising a prophetic and pastoral call to Congressional leaders to serve as a check and balance to advance the common good. These nonpartisan vigils will speak truth to power, highlighting what’s at stake and the communities already harmed. They will feature faith leaders from diverse traditions offering inspirational prayers and calls for faithful action.

Register at SOJO.NET/WITNESS to join us either in-person or virtually. Together we can provide a Faithful Witness by speaking truth to power about this mounting crisis and about communities who are already being harmed!

    1. Livestreaming link
    2. Link to event page on Sojourners website
    3. Registration page link

 

This article mentions:

Faithful Witness Wednesdays

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FCNL, Sojourners, and partners from the Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC) are organizing a series of faithful witness events at the Capitol every Wednesday in March, beginning March 5. These multi-faith vigils will call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage in upholding its Article 1 powers and preventing executive overreach. Our nation faces an escalating threat of a constitutional crisis fueled by the Trump administration’s overreach and unconstitutional actions. A lack of leadership in Congress has allowed this crisis to grow, as it cedes its role as a coequal branch of government.

The faith community will be raising a prophetic and pastoral call to Congressional leaders to serve as a check and balance to advance the common good. These nonpartisan vigils will speak truth to power, highlighting what’s at stake and the communities already harmed. They will feature faith leaders from diverse traditions offering inspirational prayers and calls for faithful action.

Register at SOJO.NET/WITNESS to join us either in-person or virtually. Together we can provide a Faithful Witness by speaking truth to power about this mounting crisis and about communities who are already being harmed!

    1. Livestreaming link
    2. Link to event page on Sojourners website
    3. Registration page link

 

This article mentions:

Faithful Witness Wednesdays

Written on:

FCNL, Sojourners, and partners from the Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC) are organizing a series of faithful witness events at the Capitol every Wednesday in March, beginning March 5. These multi-faith vigils will call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage in upholding its Article 1 powers and preventing executive overreach. Our nation faces an escalating threat of a constitutional crisis fueled by the Trump administration’s overreach and unconstitutional actions. A lack of leadership in Congress has allowed this crisis to grow, as it cedes its role as a coequal branch of government.

The faith community will be raising a prophetic and pastoral call to Congressional leaders to serve as a check and balance to advance the common good. These nonpartisan vigils will speak truth to power, highlighting what’s at stake and the communities already harmed. They will feature faith leaders from diverse traditions offering inspirational prayers and calls for faithful action.

Register at SOJO.NET/WITNESS to join us either in-person or virtually. Together we can provide a Faithful Witness by speaking truth to power about this mounting crisis and about communities who are already being harmed!

    1. Livestreaming link
    2. Link to event page on Sojourners website
    3. Registration page link

 

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Update From the Listening and Lobbying Sprint of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

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Authorship of this update is attributed to the Jeanne Elberfield and the Listening and Lobbying Sprint of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. 

Friends, I am writing this update with much optimism in my heart and mind. The Listening and Lobbying Sprint is working diligently towards a draft policy and guidance addressing political lobbying for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Over the past few months, we have learned from a nonprofit expert and PYM’s lawyer about the IRS definitions and limitations on lobbying for a 501(c)(3). We have had regular conversations about how this information helps us to find a solution that mutually satisfies Friends who are led to political advocacy, the PYM Quaker community with diverse leadings and ministries, and the PYM as a 501(c)(3). We continue to ask Spirit to guide our hearts and minds as we navigate our way forward. [Read more…] about Update From the Listening and Lobbying Sprint of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Friends Committee on National Legislation | Lobbying for the World We Seek

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The Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street Friends) welcomes fellow PYM F/friends to participate in its virtual Adult Education Series on Zoom.

About the Lecture & Speaker
The Friends Committee on National Legislation has a long history of social advocacy on Capitol Hill, but how are Friends called to influence our government today?

Just over 80 years ago, Friends started FCNL and became the first registered religious lobbying organization in the country. Today, with a team of expert lobbyists and coalition partners, grassroots networks from across the country, and the input of hundreds of Quaker communities at the start of every new congress, FCNL faithfully works to create the World We Seek. Grounded in a vision to bring about a more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable world, that legacy continues to guide our prophetic work within the federal government.

Join us to hear from Micah MacColl Nicholson, Program Associate for Quaker Engagement on the past and present of FCNL’s advocacy.

Micah MacColl Nicolson is the Program Associate for Quaker Engagement at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). An attender of Friends Meeting of Washington and alumna of Earlham College, she joined FCNL in 2023 as part of the Young Adult Program Assistant fellowship through a calling to help welcome more F/friends into the work being done in Washington, DC. She works to advocate for Quaker voices within our nation’s legislative processes and strengthen relationship with established and new Quaker communities across the country.

All are welcome! No prior registration required. Please note that the Zoom link for the event will go live on archstreetfriends.org/calendar the day of the event.

About MMFP’s Adult Education Series
The Adult Education Committee at Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street Friends) hosts a monthly series of Zoom talks on Quaker topics of particular relevance to meeting members and attenders. For a full slate of upcoming lectures, visit archstreetfriends.org/calendar.

PYM Friends Learn to Lobby with FCNL

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On October 30, PYM Friends gathered for a workshop about lobbying and its place within the world of political advocacy.  The workshop was facilitated by the Senior Director for Quaker Leadership, Alicia McBride, from Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). For twenty years, Alicia has worked in multiple roles with FCNL . She’s a member of Sandy Spring Meeting, part of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting footprint.  She was joined by Deb Hejl, member and Friend of Gwynedd Meeting, who has been actively involved with FCNL for a quarter century and serves as a PYM representative to FCNL. [Read more…] about PYM Friends Learn to Lobby with FCNL

Friends Committee on National Legislation Priorities Process

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Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) will again determine its legislative priorities by asking Meetings and Churches to discern their own lists for work in Washington. During January and February, each monthly meeting in PYM will receive an invitation from FCNL to discern what issues should be the focus of FCNL’s work in Washington over the next Congress.

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FCNL Virtual Annual Meeting & US Child Poverty Conversations in Washington

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The story below on the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s (FCNL) Annual Meeting and work to reduce child poverty comes from one of PYM’s collaboratives (a network of individual Quakers working jointly on common interests specific to themselves). Collaborative work and witness are distinct from corporate ministry of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Though many individual Quakers join together in addressing social concerns, Quakerism is a faith of continuing revelation and PYM is a ‘big tent’ with many opinions. [Read more…] about FCNL Virtual Annual Meeting & US Child Poverty Conversations in Washington

First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative: Healing and Story-telling on Federal Indian Boarding Schools

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is seeking Friends’ truths. We are looking for those truths that work toward healing and involve humbly examining and sharing our stories.
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