How to Research Your Quaker Ancestry
How do you know if your ancestors were Quakers? Here’s how to research your Quaker ancestry.
How Activism Led Me to Quakers
The Earth Quaker Action Team is a group of activists that incorporate silent Quaker worship into their protests. As a college student, Lina Blount was captivated by this style of direct action, and it started her on a Quaker journey.
Reading the Qur’an as a Quaker
Quaker author Michael Birkel felt that we aren’t hearing the whole truth about Islam, so he went out to discover it for himself.
Dreaming of Wholeness: Quakers and the Future of Racial Healing
How can Quakers play a role in racial healing? According to Sterling Duns, it’s going to take a lot of dreaming.
How Quaker Meeting is Like Jazz
As a jazz musician, Colton Weatherston finds solace in silent Quaker meeting, where he doesn’t have to to think about music. But he also finds some similarities.
What is a Quaker Query?
What is a Quaker query? As shopkeepers and businesspeople, Quakers developed queries as a way of taking “moral and spiritual inventory” of themselves. Doug Gwyn explains.
Quakers and Mental Health
As a social worker, Melody George feels passionate about what she calls “mental diversity” in faith communities. How are Quakers in a unique position to build this diversity?
What It Means to Be a Quaker Peace Activist
What makes Quakers a “peaceable” people? As Anthony Manousos explains, it’s not a lack of conflict.
Painting for Worship
Quaker painter Adrian Martinez works in solitude yet craves the communal silence of Quaker worship. We talk with him about art, spirituality, and how a poor kid from D.C. wound up painting for U.S. presidents.
Why I Am a Quaker
Is being a Quaker worth it? We asked 8 longtime Friends what keeps them coming to Meeting every Sunday. Help us produce Season 5!
