Acting in Faith
Connecting Friends to the work of AFSC Subscribe
Posts related to: AFSC History
by Madeline Schaefer
Nearly ten years after its doors opened in 1952, owners of the Friends Housing Cooperative on 703 North 8th Street in Philadelphia could state with confidence that cooperative,...
by Madeline Schaefer
On March 26, I watched Facebook turn red as friend after friend switched their profile picture to a red and pink equal sign, a graphic first posted by the Human Rights Campaign (...
by Madeline Schaefer
When I think of well-known figures of AFSC’s past, I think of men—Rufus Jones and Clarence Pickett, more specifically. I’m sure much of this has to do with the fact that I have...
by Douglas Bennett
Each year as we approach the annual meeting of the AFSC Corporation, I hear people wondering whether the Corporation has outlived its usefulness – or indeed whether it ever had one...
by Madeline Schaefer
When I was 14, my mother took me to a weekend-long Quaker work camp in West Philadelphia, one of the last before the program was closed in 2005. I painted a hallway blue,...
Regularly we will be posting a piece inspired by the rich history and archives of AFSC. The below post is the first in the series. - Lucy
by Madeline Schaefer
When I asked AFSC’s archivist, Don Davis...
Quaker Meeting/Church Liaison Program
Does your meeting want to work on social justice issues with other Quaker congregations across the country? Join our new Meeting/Church Liaison Program. Learn more and find resources for engagement here.
Get email updates from AFSC's Friends Liaison:
Or subscribe to our RSS feed
Acting in Faith audio
Listen to audio descriptions of the Meeting/Church Liaison program and check out episodies of the podcast series, "Calling forth the goodness."
Subscribe to the podcast
About the Hosts
Lucy Duncan is AFSC’s Friends Liaison. She has been a storyteller for almost 20 years and in n the past five years has begun working with Quaker meetings to help Friends to tell stories of spiritual experience. Lucy is a member of Goshen Friends Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. She lives at Friends Southwestern Burial Ground in the caretaker's house with her husband, the caretaker, and her 10-year-old son.
Madeline Schaefer is the Friends Relations Fellow at AFSC. She grew up in Philadelphia, surrounded by Quakers of all shapes and sizes. After searching for stories and adventure in distant, cooler climes, she returned home only to find the richest ones right in her backyard. Madeline lives with five lovely people in West Philadelphia, and is involved with Quakers throughout the Philadelphia region.
Older Posts
- September 2011 (4)
- October 2011 (6)
- November 2011 (2)
- December 2011 (3)
- January 2012 (2)
- February 2012 (2)
- March 2012 (3)
- April 2012 (3)
- May 2012 (3)
- June 2012 (2)
- July 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (1)
- September 2012 (4)
- October 2012 (3)
- November 2012 (7)
- December 2012 (5)
- January 2013 (5)
- February 2013 (6)
- March 2013 (5)
- April 2013 (7)
- May 2013 (5)
