Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time - The Atlantic
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Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In bereavement, give yourself time to grieve. When others mourn, let your love embrace them. — #30/passage/1-02/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #30

Why Quakers are suing the Trump administration. CBS News.

Just Say No to enabling a pedophile president.
Do NOT participate.

Quakers believe in "bearing witness"
Do that.

It is very good that @britishquakers.bsky.social have got a presence here on the Sunny Side. But over on the Dark Side I have posted this reply to my fellow travellers who have disengaged. I don’t seek a Quakerism that becomes, as a critic once suggested to me, “a holy huddle.”

The Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) was a genderless preacher who dressed in a combination of men’s and women’s clothing and fought for the rights of indigenous people and the equality of the sexes, leading others to call them a heretic and a false prophet.

Lucretia Mott once said "For it is not John Brown the soldier that we praise; it is John Brown the moral hero; John Brown the noble confessor and martyr whom we honor".

Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — #6ractice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">New England Yearly Meeting Queries #6

Thee Quaker Project is a small startup with a big dream: to bring Quakerism into the 21st century. We are building a platform for the future of Friends.

Please consider making a contribution toward the stewardship of this valuable ministry.

http://theequaker.org/support

We're continuing our Season 2 exploration of Quakers and Civil Rights with a bonus episode on James Varner. In this episode, James shares his passion to promote equality and love in Quaker circles and beyond.

Whatever God may look like in our individual imaginations, Friends have the common experience of moving through this world as if we have had “life and death, blessings and curses,” set before us—and, as Moses called the Israelites to do (Deut 30:19), we have chosen life.
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An occassional series I work on as "Quaker questions" come in. Send me yours.

Frequently asked Quaker Questions #FAQQ

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Quaker 101: A Very Basic Introduction with Suggested Readings.

To those new to the Quaker tradition or interested in learning more here is a blogpost of some of my favorite resources I use when teaching Quakerism.

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#quakers #quakerstudies #religiousstudies

"Meeting for worship is the intentional opening of a portal—a portal of knowledge, of love, of discernment," Daquanna Harrison told us recently.

Daquanna is one of several Friends who joined QuakerSpeak to discuss their experiences in meeting for worship for this week's new video.