How do Quakers engage with the legal system?

Jan 27, 2025 ... A coalition of Quaker groups, including one in Philadelphia, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to block immigration authorities from ... Quaker faith is a search for truth, not an arrival. We don't offer neat creeds or doctrine. Instead, we try to help each other work out how we should live. Apr 5, 2016 ... More importantly, it is because Quakers find that all ritual distracts and takes focus away from God. Also, Quakers believe that ministry is not ... Ingle delves more deeply into Nixon's Quaker background than any previous scholar to observe the role Nixon's religion played in his political career. Jan 21, 2020 ... Nixon's First Cover-Up, The Religious Life of A Quaker President. By H. Larry Ingle. University of Missouri, 271 pages. Quakers have stood up for what they believe is right, from prison and mental health reform, to civil and women's rights, to protecting the rights of older ... ... Quakers have often gone to prison, or suffered for their beliefs and actions. Believe that God knows what is best for the church, and that God can lead ... Feb 3, 2010 ... ... Quaker institution, nor did it ever have any religious ties to Quakerism. “Students who see that our mascot is a Quaker probably just assume ... Nixon's First Cover-Up: The Religious Life of a Quaker. President by H. Larry Ingle (review). Thomas D. Hamm. Quaker History, Volume 107, Number 1, Spring 2018, ... Jan 2, 2023 ... The book Autopsy of a Deceased Church by Thom Rainer to anyone who seems remotely concerned about the future of the Church in America or the future of their ...