AFSC's website Peace Works: Century of Action was created to gather and share stories from the past and present. Here is a small sampling of the more than 200 stories that have been contributed to date.

On the FJ Blog: "A boy’s watercolor depicts a heartwarming scene created amid the misery and starvation of post-World War I Germany. The painting, part of a new exhibit entitled “Giving Voices to Ghosts,” shows three women busy preparing food. Steam and presumably pleasant aromas arise from large kettles. Small containers of salz (salt) and zucker (sugar) sit nearby…"

Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.

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Our introduction to the March 2017 issue on Race and Anti-Racism.

Letters from our readers. Discussions on peak experiences, picking business partners, beliefs and practices of Friends, teaching in non-Quaker schools, and the agendas of terrorists.

The energy to appear strong and the socially imposed obligation to rise above it all can be exhausting.

Two Friends share their stories of growing up in a race-defined world and how they've been led to work for change.

The still, small voice within tells us that any work or sacrifice without love is a waste of time.

A group of Friends hopes to identify North American Quaker burial grounds that hold remains of African American men, women, and children.

A Friends meeting learns about an invisible racial history right in its own backyard.

FJ Poetry: "Folding fitted sheets / is an origami of / the linen closet."