The Loneliness of the Pilgrim: A Public Minister's Testimony from the National Peace Walk

The National Peace Walk is inspiring to many Quakers. Join organizer and filmmaker ross brubeck for a candid look at what it costs. Where does solitude become isolation, and what has this work asked of them? A conversation on sacrifice, support, and how the walk might mirror your own.

The National Peace Walk is the third pilgrimage in a line of public witness organized by Quakers from Brooklyn since early 2025. Starting with the Walk to Washington, a demonstration of solidarity with migrants in the United States during a height of encroachment by ICE into communities around the country, Quakers left Brooklyn for a journey by foot to speak truth to power to the United States congress, and advocate for the natural rights of all who would cross borders into the United States. October saw the Peaceward pilgrimage - an effort to meet with Quakers for recorded conversations from the still-living memory of activism by the society of Friends. The walk, following the same route from New York to Washington, D.C., which met with the same Friends who had supported the Walk to Washington, collected 30 stories from Quakers and is currently publishing each online. This year, the National Peace Walk continues the centuries-old tradition of meeting with Friends to envision peace in community by walking throughout the United States for conversation with Quakers and aligned communities around the country. With the faith and support of Quakers and other peaceworkers, the walk will reach Minneapolis in November, carrying a message developed in worshipful discernment over the prior 5 months, to meet with the communities which have had the most lengthy confrontation with ICE agents since 2025. 

Register for the event here. From the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry.