This month, Acting in Faith will be featuring excerpts from the book, "Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights," published in 2011 by Friends General Conference. A collection of writings from African American Quakers throughout American history, the book is insightful, inspiring and challenging.
AFSC’s Acting in Faith bloggers reflect on how harmful patriarchal definitions of manhood can be transformed so that they are more diverse, more authentic, and more whole.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (@FCNL) and the American Friends Service Committee (@afsc_org) partnered in live tweeting responses to the State of the Union Address on January 28th, offering a distinctly Quaker perspective on the issues President Obama raised joined by other Quaker voices who also tweeted during the speech.