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

This one is definitely for @danakatharine.bsky.social and all those who listen to DBTF on WPRB!

As pub date approaches, I'm grateful for this review from #Quaker activist and mentor George Lakey: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/a-ve...

Just got my copy of @eileenflanagan.bsky.social's Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation. Can't wait to read it!

Registration to the next training is now open. Refreshments & child care will be provided. This training is for Quakers and non-Quakers! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-faith-...

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.

Ready-made community. And you can pick the one you like best. And your whole family will benefit. Yes, please. slate.com/life/2025/09... Thank you @gailcornwall.com for spelling it out.

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...

Question of the night:

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

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 was delighted to have lunch downtown with mi amor, @robinmsf.bsky.social, yesterday!

Interesting, and yet more interesting to me is the YouTube user name! youtu.be/0mjI-77ddRg?...

We are NOT too old to go see live bands on Sunday night! So there!

Thank you, @jon.wprb.com and WPRB, for tix to see Mike Polizze, Lo Fives, and Silver Synthetic at Johhny Brenda's! Glad to be here with @robinmsf.bsky.social. #WPRB #CommunityRadio #Rockist

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:

oh hey, Quaker William Penn had a major role in the history of jury nullification!

📣 New Video! I am joined by Paul Parker, Recording Clerk of Quakers in Britain. We discuss his role as a Quaker leader and what he sees as his main achievements and priorities. We talk about how a Quaker leads, as well as Paul's hopes for the future of Quakerism @rcquaker.bsky.social #quakerism

It's been a long time since I went to my own yearly meeting in person. Since 2019 to be exact. And this is the first time I will go without my children. But being part of our larger community @quakerspym.bsky.social matters to me. I wrote about it back in 2019. robinmsf.blogspot.com/2019/07/in-p...

Friends Center tenant of the day is the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Section of the Americas. FWCC brings Friends of varying traditions & cultural experiences together in worship, communications & consultation, to express our common heritage & Quaker message to the world. /15a

It’s a very humbling exercise when you send your book out into the wild world! I’ve been so overwhelmed with the lovely early reviews. Quaker history is cool! 😎

Today we lift up Friends Child Care Center as our featured nonprofit tenant of the day. Founded in 1978 by the @afsc-org.bsky.social, @quakerspym.bsky.social, & Central Philadelphia Friends Meeting, Friends Child Care Center (FCCC) began within the historic Friends Center. /11a

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.

AFSC is one of 3 Quaker groups that formed the Friends Center equity partnership to steward the property at 1501 Cherry Street in Center City Philadelphia. Today their strategic goals are: just & sustainable peace, just economies, & just responses to forced displacement & migration. /4b

Our featured Philly nonprofit office organization today is the American Friends Service Committee, @afsc-org.bsky.social! As they say, "Founded by Quakers in 1917, AFSC has been at the forefront of some of the most important social movements in working for a more just, peaceful world." /4a

The ACE Mentor Program of America, founded in 1994, is a no-cost after-school program that prioritizes workforce development for high school students by connecting them with experts from the design and construction industry. /2

Friends Center's nonprofit office tenants include both Quaker and non-Quaker organizations. All have missions that align with Quaker values and testimonies in Philadelphia and beyond. Today we start a thread highlighting them! (1/~30)

Walking around the block with a boombox on your shoulder blasting "How Can I Keep From Singing" will also do the trick.

quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?

Over on ILX there's a new thread called "Let's determine the best moment of New Order's The Perfect Kiss on Substance" and these are the options in the poll and 1) accurate, all of them and 2) I am in agonies that there is no "ALL OF THEM" option.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Several hundred people at the #NoKings rally in Elkins Park, PA, outside Philly. Favorite signs included No ICE but Wooder Ice! We brought @fcnl.bsky.social signs.

everyone needs this right now. you have no idea how much you, personally, need this youtu.be/fAXO7SXK0Pc?...

From my column, linked below

A few months ago, twenty police officers smashed down the door of Westminster Quaker meetinghouse and arrested a handful of young activists as they sat eating hummus and breadsticks. quakerpodcast.com/when-police-...

#Admiration for Jacinda Ardern. • Empathy is a kind of strength • The rehumanisation of people in public life is really important • I love politics, but that’s because I love people Katharine Viner. 'Decent, resolutely human, still believes modesty, kindness and compassion will win.' bit.ly/4dWc3sL

Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) hosts WELCOME TO QUAKERISM, a 4-part online series on 3rd Thursdays at 7:30 pm on 6/19, 7/17, 8/21, 9/18. This fresh, engaging series invites Friends to explore the spiritual grounding, communal practices, and rich traditions of the Quaker way.

Quaker Call to Action will hold a national conversation on Zoom with Daniel Hunter of @choosedemocracy.bsky.social on Sun., 6/1, 7 pm Eastern. The title for the session is, "Defending our democracy: Where are we and what's next?" quakercall.net/join-the-con...

I wrote about life, the universe, and everything, and how how present fascist nightmare is the result of an unnaturally submerged life. What is the purpose of humanity? We are beings of awareness, not efficiency. Let's start there as see where it takes us. www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...

Hoping to finish grilling before the next deluge in Philly...

Bike to work, they said. It'll be great, they said. Just go in between thunderstorms and around the puddles & the regatta on the Schuylkill. Happy National Bike to Work Day, they said.

Wondering if @uneasylistening.bsky.social @danakatharine.bsky.social @jon.wprb.com or @whuppy.bsky.social know this track or band from Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ.

What does "home" truly mean? Join Peterson and Sweet Miche as they explore the multifaceted meaning of home with Zae Illo's laundry ministry, Quaker solidarity with unhoused neighbors, and Scattergood Hostel's wartime refuge. Listen at www.QuakersToday.org

Guardian article about the Quaker Walk 2025 from Flushing, Queens, N.Y., to Washington, D.C. Heading west out of Philadelphia today!

View of Quaker Walk 2025 support van decal: "Walk to Washington. The Quaker-interfaith pilgrimage for peace & justice, walking to DC to affirm & defend everlasting human rights across all borders. ALL ARE WELCOME. Quakerwalk2025.org." Race St. Quaker Meetinghouse windows of reflected in van window!

Participants in the QuakerWalk2025.org stopped by Friends Center yesterday. Read more on their website and in the AP article.

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Today's Daily Quaker Message. Read the full quote: dailyquaker.com