Coming up Sunday 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How faith communities can support immigrants. Part of Friends Center's 50th anniversary series of trainings on nonviolent action. Held here in Center City Philadelphia. Refreshments and child care provided. For Quakers and non-Quakers alike! Sign up here:

Registration is open for the next workshop in Friends Center's series to celebrate our 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Here with @quakerspym.bsky.social next Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants

World Quaker Day is this Sunday! (Or, as earlier generations of Friends called it, and some still do today, this First Day.)

FCNL’s Stephen Donahoe reflects on finding hope, even in the worst places: “I am taking this reminder to seek out and cultivate resilience. I am taking this reminder to continue planting seeds, even in the rockiest soil.”

You can register here for our October 12th workshop on how faith communities can support immigrants. Open to Quakers non-Quakers alike!

New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

At Stenton Museum in Philly, 9/30/25: "Wrestling with Justice" will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery & create an interpretive framework, programming, & exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved & free people at Stenton, & evolving 18th-C. Quaker attitudes re enslavement.

We continue our 50th anniversary training series Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm, with @quakerspym.bsky.social & New Sanctuary Movement of Philly. How faith communities can support immigrant justice, with updates on what’s happening on the ground & how to stand in solidarity. Open to all. Register here:

This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'. Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times! You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

Thanks to Lewis Webb of @afsc-org.bsky.social & Tonya McClary for leading our 1st training in Friends Center's series celebrating our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Next: @quakerspym.bsky.social on how faith communities can support immigrants, here on 10/12/25, 3-5 pm.

"We believe that career development, spiritual and faith practice, and mental health are key to long-term peace and community empowerment," says Joyeuse Senga, co-founder and executive director of Friends Career Center, which serves the needs of young people in Rwanda and Canada.

Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Friends Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a series of trainings on nonviolent action. First up: Community Safety Beyond Policing, with @afsc-org.bsky.social. Please share the flyer: friendscentercorp.org/wp-content/u...

How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities? Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community. Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:

Countdown is on! Our PFAS webinar is just days away. Learn how “forever chemicals” impact obesity, infertility, cancer, and more — and what we can do to protect public health. Featuring Megan Wolff, PhD, MPH. Reserve your spot today: buff.ly/wanQdyW

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.

We have new @afsc-org.bsky.social banners to share with you all: "Quaker Communities are stronger with immigrants" 1/2

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition by Dutch colonists in protest of religious intolerance in the New Netherland colony that targeted religious minorities and including Quakers. None of the signers were Friends but they resisted their government in pursuit of religious tolerance. (1/2)

And just like that, the @afsc-org.bsky.social historical marker is back and looking better than ever. It notes AFSC as co-recipient of 1947 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Quakers. Thank you, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission!

Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.

Why are Quakers always at protests? 🪧 From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, Rhiannon Grant takes a look at why it's quite common to see Quakers marching with a banner. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/why-are...

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...

Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.

"I ultimately found my faith tested in these last years," says Evan Welkin, executive secretary of the FWCC Section of the Americas, "in a way that had nothing to do with Catholicism, perhaps even little to do with Quakerism but everything to do with God meeting me in the darkest places in my life."

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.

Quakers (aka Religious Society of Friends) are getting a lot of love on BlueSky lately! If you're interested to check out a Quaker meeting yourself, whether online or in person, Friends World Committee, Section of the Americas (part of @globalquakers.bsky.social) has this resource to find Friends:

Rut roh! Our other historical marker went missing. Fortunately, it's just that PA Historical & Museum Commission took this one down for maintenance, too! Our second sign commemorates Civilian Public Service and the involvement of Quaker, Mennonite, and Church of the Brethren agencies. 1/2

🎬 We're excited to share that the 2024 World Plenary Meeting Documentary is now live on our YouTube channel. Available in 4K quality, you might consider organising a screening for your Quaker group on #WorldQuakerDay, Sunday 5 October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrq...

Quakers today are "living in a time when we can see inaction is risky," Jade Rockwell, a pastor at West Elkton Friends Meeting in Ohio, says. "If we're not able to respond to our world, bad things can happen. And we may be morally responsbile if we aren't able to be responsive and active."

Friends have had a presence at our present site since the 1840s. The Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse was built in 1856. @afsc-org.bsky.social, founded here in 1917, has a historic marker recognizes their work for... Wait, what? It's gone! 1/2

If your Philadelphia nonprofit organization's mission aligns with Quaker values and testimonies, then Friends Center's Center City office space might be for you! Learn more:

Our series featuring all 30 organizations here at Friends Center, in alphabetical order, concluded today with @wtiusa.bsky.social. Read more:

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

Are you aged 18-35 and interested in connecting with others Young Adult Friends around the world, or know someone who is? The World Executive Committee for Young Adult Friends (WECYAF) is holding an international meeting for worship on Sunday 17 August. Find out more youngquakers.world/worship/

The geometry of light as seen in the worship room at the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse here.

Next week is Philadelphia Solar Week 2025! How will you celebrate? #Philly #PhillyGreen #PhillySolar

As we mark the 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pope Leo XIV called on the world to “reject the illusion of security founded on mutually assured destruction.” We can - and must - build a brighter future free from the shadow of nuclear weapons.

Speaking of this week's 80th anniversaries of the U.S. dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Bridget Moix of @fcnl.bsky.social recently wrote a Quaker argument for a world without nuclear weapons via @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy.

In “Common Ground,” author Eileen Flanagan takes readers inside hard-fought climate victories while exploring the importance of acting in solidarity.

Our thread of the Philly nonprofit organizations with office space at Friends Center is getting long, so we'll lift up today's post for the start of the week: Pennsylvania Health Action Network (PHAN).

PPC creates tools that political officials, opinion leaders, grassroots organizations, & the people of Pennsylvania need to expand our vibrant democracy, secure our freedom, & seek economic justice in Pennsylvania. P.S. Here's a sign they have pinned up in their workspace. /20b

The things you see when walking around Friends Center: New @afsc-org.bsky.social yard signs in the offices of @quakerspym.bsky.social! #Quakers

We so appreciated the flowers and kind note from acls1919.bsky.social after they had a meeting here recently!

🔥 “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

[email protected] got a couple of positive mentions in this @hiddencityphila.bsky.social article.

Great story in Hidden City Philadelphia about Quaker aid to government-displaced Japanese Americans during WW2. A coalition of peace activists, Quakers, and religious progressives opened a hostel in West Philly and organized college admissions to area schools.

"Quaker prayer," David Johnson explained to us in this 2019 video, "is a matter of letting go of outward words, and of our thoughts and imaginations, and of centering down into a place of silence where we can wait and notice the movements of God within us."

Our thread of Philly nonprofit organizations residing at Friends Center is getting long! So we wanted to lift up today's posts on Gender Justice Fund and the QuakerSpeak video on "Quakers and Women in the Ministry."