Have you heard of Sarah Mapps Douglass, a trailblazing Quaker educator and abolitionist who fought for freedom and equality? Born into a prominent Black family in Philadelphia, she used her platform to empower others, founding schools for Black children and teaching health education to Black women.

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Join us as we dig beneath the surface of climate protests and policy work to discover how a profound shift in our spiritual theology can transform environmentalism from a crushing global burden into a deeply personal, daily practice of love. quakerpodcast.com/quakers-and-...

Thee Quaker Project is a Quaker media startup seeking ways to be faithful Friends in the internet age. Take a look at everything we’ve been making! Podcast: quakerpodcast.com Inspirational Quaker quotes: dailyquaker.com Videos: quakervideos.com

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Is DoUThinkImFoxy the a**hole?

This month our daily devotional email, the Daily Quaker Message, has a quote a day about the Quaker approach to technology (and no, we don’t use a printing press!). Subscribe for free! DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

We share three essays written by members of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting about their experience of Quaker Meeting for Worship. This episode originally aired on June 21, 2023. quakerpodcast.com/quaker-meeti...

This is the story of one of the first Quaker meetings ever established, at Brigflatts in Cumbria. Read to the end of the thread for an invitation to what will be many Friends’ dream meeting for worship! @quaker.org.uk

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How many degrees is Kevin Bacon from Quakers? Kevin Bacon can trace his ancestry on his father’s side back to the first generation of Quakers convinced in England during the time of George Fox.

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Discover how Irish Quakers stepped into the margins of a deeply divided Northern Ireland during the Troubles, using radical hospitality and a simple cup of tea to do the quiet, dangerous work of building peace. quakerpodcast.com/quakers-in-i...

This month marks 57 years since the Stonewall uprising in 1969, when a police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village incited a riot and days of protests, one of the catalysts for the gay liberation movement in the United States. And Quakers were there.

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It all started with a fox. An actual fox. It got loose in a steeplehouse during a service, cleared everyone out, and the vicar called a fox catcher. When the fox catcher noticed how peaceful it was in the silent church, she had an idea... Put your own cockamamie Quaker origin story in the comments!

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Podcast producer Zack Jackson traveled to Ireland Yearly Meeting to learn, firsthand, how this diverse community has managed to have such an outsized impact on the island of Ireland. Tune in to hear what this small but mighty community can teach the rest of us. quakerpodcast.com/quakers-in-i...

The African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) is a core program of Friends Peace Teams (FPT) that promotes grassroots peacebuilding, trauma healing, and reconciliation in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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And, like, bonnets I guess.

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Quaker author, speaker, and teacher Parker Palmer joins us to explore the tension between the world's demands for success, and our soul’s need for integrity. He invites us to let go of forced outcomes and instead live with simple faithfulness to our unique gifts. quakerpodcast.com/quaker-autho...

Hobart Quaker Meeting in Tasmania is the oldest meeting in Australia. English Friends James Backhouse and George Washington Walker arrived in Hobart in 1832, holding the first meeting for worship soon after and formally establishing the meeting the following year.

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When the meeting for business devolves....

This month our daily devotional email, the Daily Quaker Message, has a quote a day for parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, members of worshipping communities – anyone who spends time with children. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

Discover how Friends Fiduciary is taking a seat at the shareholder's table, using Quaker values to persuade global brands to put humanity over quick profits. quakerpodcast.com/how-to-inves...

It’s wedding season! Have you ever been to a wedding where the couple marries themselves? Here's what to expect at a Quaker wedding.

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Happy Mother’s Day to Elizabeth Hooton, who “mothered” a young George Fox. He was 22 and she was 47 when he came to the door of her farmhouse to share his experiences of faith. She became his first convert and his mentor, helping him find his voice in the early days of the Quaker movement.

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This week on the podcast, Quaker minister and scientist Brian Drayton joins us to explore how we can engage in the deep spiritual formation required to respond faithfully to the climate crisis. quakerpodcast.com/brian-drayto...

Gary Kurtz, producer of the Star Wars movies “A New Hope” and “The Empire Strikes Back”, has been called the “father of the Force.” Over the course of many late-night conversations with George Lucas, the two determined that in Star Wars, the Force would be... (cont. in thread)

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Jeremiah Dixon was an English Quaker surveyor and astronomer. He was written out of Raby Meeting in Durham in 1760 at the age of 27 with this minute: “Jery Dixon, son of George and Mary Dixon of Cockfield disowned for drinking to excess.” (Continued in the thread...)

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe When I go up to kiss my sleeping children and linger with them, in quietness and love, that is prayer. Citation: Anne Hosking, 1984 Member of South Wales Area Meeting

This is a great article about how Quakers in Monteverde, Costa Rica are supporting families deported there by the US. Zack Jackson recently did a more in-depth interview with one of the migrants on Thee Quaker Podcast. You can listen to it here. quakerpodcast.com/mobilizing-q...

Canada is the second largest country in the world by area, but is home to just 1,000 Quakers. How did they get there, and how do they stay organized across all that space?

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I am called into this moment, and I don’t know what I’m called to do, but the notion that there is a great need and the world is depending on us is something I feel in my bones. Citation: Annika Fjelstad, 2026 Quaker educator and activist

A Quaker riddle: I reformed where sorrow filled the air, In prison cells of deep despair. With Quaker faith and steadfast care, I brought new hope to women there. Who am I?

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Is this the most remote Quaker meeting in the world? See if you can guess where it is… (I’ll put the answer in the comments tomorrow!)