As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour. Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I have had this uncharitable thought myself, but I never voiced it out loud except to my husband.

At a time of incredibly difficult and sad news from round the world, some incredible news. Huntington’s disease, most common in adults - but I also nursed teens with the condition - has successfully treated for the first time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1. Evangelicals have the #Rapture but Quaker have the #LambsWar since the early days (Gwyn) “The personal experience of being deconstructed & reconstructed in Christ's inward light empowered many early Friends to enter local 'steeplehouses' & confront false authority in the official Church.”

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Founded in 1689, Fairfield Friends Meeting House in West Yorkshire is one of the oldest Quaker meeting houses in the world. 1/9

This was a great #Sundaymorning read. I was just thinking about how my faith is also my people and my tribe. We are always standoffish towards government but even more so now. But we stand together. We sink or swim together as a shoal. #Quakers

He is not a Christian martyr. Stop it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-shamef...

This is a fragile grandma not a criminal gang member. Is this what you wanted, MAGA?

Friends Journal Videos #LetYourLIfeSpeak youtu.be/NHu-Vm511jY?...

Quakers Walk to Washington #LetYourLifeSpeak youtu.be/NHu-Vm511jY?...

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This is what I mean. A truly embodied Quaker #spirituality. #QuakerWalktoWashington #FlushingRemonstrance #religiousfreedom #LoveYourNeighborsNoExceptions #ImmigrationRights #NoICE youtu.be/QX2mUFdHVac?...

This day always hits heavier for me than I think it will. Sept 11 made us who we are in so many ways we can’t even fathom. Sending love out into the world.

Jacob is a friend of a friend, a member of the George School community and a lifelong Quaker. He was arrested by the FBI weeks later after peacefully protesting against ICE abuse of power. His go fund me enables him to have a non-government lawyer. gofund.me/e0013aad8

It’s time to resist the DSEI arms fair. This week, Quakers will join activists of all faiths and none in challenging the arms dealers who profit from death and destruction. Find the full information from Quaker Roots here:

Translated out of Quaker, this is the sound of Arnold Schwarzenegger reloading a shotgun one-handed. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

They're breaking the stained glass ceiling. “I had to create a new table and plant my own church because no existing system would allow me to lead at the highest level,”

#LectioDivina #EmbodiedSpirituality #SpiritualEmbodiment #RufusJones #WhyIEnrollAsAMystic #Meditatio #Oratio #Contemplatio

Feeling panicked this a.m. Too much doomscrolling & news Fixed my fountain pen Found a notebook Wrote the first text Meditation on passive verbs & counterfactuals Feeling calmer now Spirit & Body Sanity for a second

In the mid 1980s, I started attending meeting at a large Meetinghouse in a midwestern university town. We were grappling with the issue of marrying same-sex couples. There were a lot of LGBTQ ppl in the meeting. In fact, they ran the First Day School as far as I could tell. #Quakers

All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our awareness of the divine and to find the inward source of our strength. (From) Advices & Queries 3 - Britain Yearly Meeting

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I have been, let’s say, Quaker-curious for a while, and this beautifully written, lovingly inclusive, absolutely resolute, completely kind and anger-free “fuck you” has made me curiouser for sure

you can absolutely be an atheist Quaker. there's a bit of language about God & Jesus kicking about, but mainly it's about contemplation of... whatever it is that you find

Folks in England & Ireland: I'm coming in late March 2026 to perform at a festival, and I would love to bring my work to your church, Quaker meeting, community center, side alley, etc. 😍 Some presentations I offer: www.petersontoscano.com/presentations Contact page: www.petersontoscano.com/contact

Had an article published in the #Quaker magazine "the Friend." I really hope that Quakers in Britain can be the safe space for trans folk that it's always been for me as a gay guy. thefriend.org/article/look... #LGBT+ #theology

Never has filling in a post event questionnaire felt so worth while 😂 ‘Business Practise’ is a key part of Quaker spirituality, and even if it can be frustrating sometimes, it has tangible benefits as a way of working.

This is how you say “fuck off, bigots” in Quaker speak. It is thoroughly polite, legally careful, and completely devastating 💚

📣 New video! I explain why atheists and non-theists can be Quakers. It is something which confuses people in other denominations but I think fits perfectly with Quaker theology. #quakers #quakerism #britishquakers #atheist

The American Friends Service Committee a Quaker organization that advocates for peace,said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

“We find this to be an attempt at lobbying by stealth, outside the discernment discipline of the Yearly Meeting, and an unhelpful method of communication” My mother was a Quaker. This is Quaker phrasing for eat a bag of crap 😅

Silence is an opportunity for seeking communion with the sacred. Quakers do not worship the silence, but that to which the silence leads... Here Quakers have found communion deep and strong as any bread and wine. Tom Rothschild - 2007

Another beautiful reading from “Daily Readings from Quaker Writings”.

Actually I worried about it so much that I brought it up with the game historian & writer David Parlett. Is it ok, to care about games this much, I said. When there's so much that needs fixing in the world. It felt like a weird question but he took it seriously & brought up his Quaker faith.

"Sitting quietly in Quaker Meeting, it occurred to me that honesty is one of the luxuries of privilege...." —from "Do, re, mi" by Charles Weld

Started my new volunteer job as a literacy tutor today #reading #lovebooks #libraries

Happy Aloha Friday from Kailua Bay!

📣 New video! I react to a video titled ‘Why I am Not a Quaker’… I predictably have views! #quaker #quakerism #quakers #britishquakers

First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.

Last week we cracked open Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination with Jim Webner—grief + hope, lament + amazement, a word for now. Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱 📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m

"Patriotism doesn’t mean support of government. Patriotism means support of the principles it’s supposed to stand for." -- Howard Zinn, born #OTD 1922

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Berkeley #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

1/ I decided to ask ChatPT to translate a quote from Quaker writer and mystic Thomas Kelly to T-rumpspeak. Here's the original quote & see the comments for the translation. What do you think? I think this is fun. 😀

Fidgets help with self-regulation, you say?

100+ years before the Revolution, Quaker Mary Dyer was executed in Boston because she wouldn't shut up. She was told to stop speaking. She refused. Reaction to her execution led to better treatment of Quakers. My husband's Methodist grandma preached. My mom preached. I preach. We're America.