From Zoom to back roads in Iowa, this season’s travel reminded me that prophetic imagination lives in small acts—shared meals, old friendships, and even stormy roads. Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th... #Quakers #PublicMinistry #PropheticImagination

‪@cosmichope.bsky.social‬ and I think we've got a spark. Join us in exploring your experience of the divine and the curiosities of the ages through the fire of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Spinoza, biblical texts of terror, and process theology. What's that? www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...

🌱 What if naming someone out loud was the most loving act of ministry you could offer? In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in. 📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...

To God's ears.

🌿 “Truth for authority, not authority for truth.” Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today. Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham... #Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott

Eileen Flanagan worships with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service. Her new book Common Ground is part of that ministry. The book comes from years of climate justice organizing and public action brought forward from her faith. Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...

Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall! Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long! pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...

This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home. If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.

Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.

What does it really mean to be called into Quaker public ministry? Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...

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

See you tonight!! If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.

🌟 Ministry takes many shapes. In convo w/ Windy Cooler, Kody Hersh lifts up the gifts of Peterson Toscano, Amanda Kemp, eppchez yo-sí yes & Cai Quirk—artists whose Spirit-led creativity is ministry rooted in love. 💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation. 👉 shorturl.at/o20cr

Dive into the uncompromising clarity of 18th‑century Quaker John Woolman. He paid enslaved people for their labor, shunned sugar & luxury, confronted comfort with complicity, and practiced "near sympathy" with all. Unsettling, urgent, necessary. tinyurl.com/yk6am6r6 #Quaker #Ministry

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.

What does it really mean to carry a concern? Will you survive it? 🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color. 💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.” 👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b #Quakers #PublicMinistry

🔥 “It was something that couldn't not happen.” ross brubeck felt the call to public ministry like fire—explosive, undeniable. So he walked. From Brooklyn to D.C. A revival in motion. Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac

Quaker public minister? Apply for a fellowship! www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-min...

✨ The Friends Incubator Fellowship for Public Ministry is now OPEN for applications! 🌿 Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings. Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship #Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦‍⬛

The third of @woodbrooke.bsky.social's 2025 Eva Koch Scholar presentations, 'Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation' given by our Justice and Peace Secretary Hezron Masitsa, is now available to watch online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK4...

✨ The Courage to Be Faithful Anyway: 19th-c. DIVORCED Quaker minister Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader preached boldly and lived prophetically. Her story still speaks, as Tom Hamm shows us in the second in our series on #Quaker #PublicMinistry. 🕊️ Read more: tinyurl.com/4am65jv6 #FriendsIncubator

📣 Aug 20–Sept 17: What can Quaker public ministers learn from the “prophetic imagination”? Join Jim Webner for a 5-week drop-in course. Hosted by Friends Incubator. www.friendsincubator.org/event-list 🕊️ #Quaker

💸 What does your Quaker meeting spend money on? Tracy Booth shares how the Lyman Fund has backed 660+ leadings—without fundraising—by investing in faithfulness, not outcomes. 🕊️ Money can be ministry. Clearness is care. Legacy starts small. ✨ Read more: shorturl.at/7oiLH #Quaker #Ministry

George Fox wasn’t boring (Tom Hamm, our lecturer, isn't boring either!!)—and neither is the radical heart of Quaker public ministry. Trust the Spirit, speak boldly, and live faithfully. tinyurl.com/4nkwzsy6 #Quaker #PublicMinistry #GeorgeFox

Information sessions are being scheduled right now for this summer for the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry. Sign up to receive updates about information sessions and the application to join the first cohort of #Quaker meetings, ministers, and elders. www.friendsincubator.org/cohort

Brian Drayton hits it out of the park in Love in Motion: #Friends Traveling in the #Ministry! #Quaker #PublicMinistry #FriendsIncubator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGs8...

Traveling in the ministry: a sign of life, freedom in form, and faithfulness in motion, blog post by Brian Drayton in advance of his lecture on the 21st! shorturl.at/mGR1l #Quaker #PublicMinistry #SpiritualTravel #FriendsFaith #TravelingMinistry #MinistryUnderConcern

Join author Brian Drayton and Friends Incubator for Public Ministry for a pay-as-led lecture and discussion on the centuries-old practices of Quakers traveling with a ministry concern! www.friendsincubator.org/event-list

On Quaker elders in public ministry: www.friendsincubator.org/post/reclaim...

Autumn is traditional the time when people settle down with warm crumpets in hideous stretchy jumpers. It's also the time when myself and @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social will be offering a short reflective course on contemporary Quaker Theology. 🌟🙏 www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...

www.friendsincubator.org/post/ravens-... Take a little trip to our new website and join the Incubator's facilitated conversation about Quaker Friends, right relationship, community and ministry. Visit our advisory board and find out about future events!

Wonderful things are happening! Take the survey and register for a focus group! #travelingministry #quaker #religioussocietyoffriends #publicministry #publicfriend #friendsgeneralconference #friendsincubatorforpublicministry

Something is being born in our field of cut-up Quaker poppies. "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them...Consider how the wildflowers grow..." Luke 12:24-28

Wisdom and scholarship from 1980 on the topic of Quaker public ministry. Have you experienced the "illness" of a concern Bill Taber describes and/or the psychic "near sympathy" of visitation? digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Wonderful things are happening! Take the survey and register for a focus group! #travelingministry #quaker #religioussocietyoffriends #publicministry #publicfriend #friendsgeneralconference #friendsincubatorforpublicministry

Are you a Quaker? Liberal, Conservative, Evangelical, Programmed, Semiprogrammed, Unprogramed? Interested in the topic of ministry? Take the survey on Quaker public ministry as we prepare for our first focus group on public ministry! forms.gle/EUeWNASKNsZP... #Quaker #PublicMinistry #FGC

Are you wondering how to think about support and accountability for #Quaker #TravelingMinistry or #PublicMinistry within your local #QuakerMeeting context? One thing you can do is ask to discern a #TravelMinute. Pictured is one issued to my family for a trip, with a response. Ask me about it.

My local (unprogrammed and liberal) #Quaker meeting recently created a way for #PublicMinisters (also sometimes called #TravelingMinisters or #PublicFriends) to be financially supported through tax-deductible donations! Talk to me if this is an idea you would like your #QuakerMeeting to take up.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the conflict in your life and the world? Please consider taking this online course with me in June on how to change how we communicate as people and as communities to help us see what needs our attention. tinyurl.com/jfsvy65c More here: tiny.cc/brv8001

There's still time to register for my online book group, discussing my latest publication "The Spirit of Freedom." Begins Monday 13 January! 🤩https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/book-club-the-spirit-of-freedom-with-mark-russ/ #quaker #theology #spirituality

Want to spend some time considering your call to public ministry with me in February? www.fgcquaker.org/fgcworkshops...

www.friendsjournal.org/preparing-ou... "This is not so much about holding people accountable as it is about opening up in order to create the environment in which we can be reliably loving to one another in the world as it really exists."

Why are Quaker pirates...pirates? They just aaaaaaarrrrgh!