It is very uplifting and exciting to know that for our second monthly Love As Action vigil/protest the number of F/friends participating more than doubled. January's 13 participants became February's 30+. There were at least four Quaker meetings and two churchs represented as well as others from Princeton and Mercer County, Bucks County and Lancaster Counties in PA, Burlington County and elsewhere. After begining with the vigil at the Meetinghouse, those that were able walked to the Federal...

A Monthly AFSC inspired public worship, vigil and protest begins at the Meetinghouse Acting on a call from American Friends Service Committee, Trenton Meeting is the location in New Jersey that is hosting one of the nationwide monthly Love as Action public gatherings, providing an opportunity for public witness to our concerns for the rise of authoratarianism and all the ways that that is playing out in today's America. The initial gathering on January 17th was done without great...

Despite weather that was concerning on the morning of two of our events, there was a good crowd for those and a great turnout on New Year's Eve for the Annual Peace Vigil. Fred Millner, our "Quaker historian in residence" helped presented information and stories about individual local Quakers who were involved in fighting or resisting the fighting of the Revolutionary War. And he talked about the overview of Quaker dilemmas choosing sides and/or choosing to help the Colonists or the British....