@alvinjfigueroa.bsky.social
Literary scholar, teacher, theologian, queer Boricua Quaker. Retired from Academia after 42 years of teaching Hispanic Studies.
Friendly Persuasion
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Cute cat looking up with broken vase
The perpetrator was never found
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AFSC welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza and a potential end to the genocide. For two years we have called for an end to Israeli attacks, the release of all people held captive, and full humanitarian access to Gaza. afsc.org/newsroom/afs...
09.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Progressive churches wanting to show up powerfully in our current social-cultural-political milieu:
Epistemic humility is great, refreshing compared to know-it-all dogmatism.
But can we also root ourselves in existential courage?
Sarah Mullally was named on Friday as the first female head of the Church of England but her appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury immediately drew criticism from conservative Anglicans mainly based in Africa who oppose women bishops.
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Today's Daily Quaker Message. Read the full quote: dailyquaker.com
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Lo que más jode es que haya gente en Puerto Rico que lo celebre. Por supuesto que históricamente hemos sido el Peñon de Gibraltar de las Américas, pero el pueblo se ha unido y ha protestado por décadas para que deje de serlo. La memoria histórica de Puerto Rico es muy pequeñita.
10.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Puerto Rico, lamentablemente, padece de amnesia colectiva y síndrome social de Estocolmo.
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Our December issue asks, "What Do Quakers Believe?" Is there a way to describe our beliefs that covers most if not all Friends? Is it grounded in classic principles of Quakerism or in the varied practices of actual Friends today?
Submissions accepted (1,200 to 2,500 words) until September 22, 2025.
Today's Daily Quaker Message. Read the full quote: dailyquaker.com
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“Since theology is something we all do,” Mark Russ writes in The Spirit of Freedom, “it’s useful to have people who can help us do it better. I feel called to be one of those people. Doing theology is how I serve my Quaker community.”
05.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Less than 30 hours to go! Join us on Zoom for the 2024 World Plenary Meeting Documentary Premiere, 'Living Ubuntu' on Saturday 9 August at 16:00 BST - registration details on our website fwcc.world/event/world-...
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Pennsylvania Hall officially opened its doors on May 14, 1838, welcoming all Philadelphians, regardless of race, sex, or status.
The “temple to free discussion” stood just four days before a mob, enraged by the politics of “race-mixing” and women and men speaking together equally, burned it down.
“We name what we see as genocide after deep discernment – not to incite, but to open eyes, minds, and hearts. We name this painful truth with the fervent hope that the violence it describes will cease."
Quaker agencies speak out on Gaza:
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Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents.
He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence.
Painting of a woman at a table looking at another woman who is holding a serving tray. My caption “can I get you anything else?” “A new president and another coffee would be great.”
back from vacation (a week ago) and about to make it everyone’s problem
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Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges in an appeal of damages owed to a gay couple after denying them a marriage license.
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🌎Environmental justice "can no longer be regarded as an abstract concept or a distant goal ... For it is a matter of justice – social, economic and human." -- Pope Leo XIV
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My Native American grandchildren deserve a better place to live and grow up.
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By providing billions more for ICE, this bill ammounts to a blank check for more chaos and cruelty.
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Las monjas que bailan y hacen ‘beatboxing’ para atraer fieles en Brasil www.nytimes.com/es/2025/06/2...
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Los refugiados nicaragüenses temen que su gobierno los esté persiguiendo en Costa Rica www.nytimes.com/es/2025/06/2...
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There’s nothing beautiful about the “Big Beautiful” budget bill.
It cuts what feeds, heals, and powers us, all to fund what cages, divides, imprisons, and impoverishes us.
The Senate must block it.
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White text on black background with white AFSC logo, text reads: Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions against President Trump’s efforts to curtail birthright citizenship. This decision is an affront to constitutional rights, common sense, and the wellbeing of our communities. It also undermines the legal system as a whole and the ability of federal courts to put a check on presidential power in particular. However, the Supreme Court did not rule on the issue of birthright citizenship itself. We will continue to work with partners and communities across the country to challenge both unjust immigration policies and authoritarianism more broadly. We will be in congress, in the courts, in our communities, and in the streets working for a world where democracy is upheld and our families are not torn apart. Our communities are stronger and safer with immigrants.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions against President Trump’s efforts to curtail #birthright citizenship.
Our communities are stronger and safer with immigrants.
