We are excited to be embarking on our second season!
Announcing: New Partnerships!
Resources:
- Subscribe to QuakerSpeak so you never miss a video
- Read Friends Journal to see how other Friends describe the substance of Quaker spirituality
Transcript:
Welcome to QuakerSpeak, Season 2
Welcome to Quaker Speak!
Quaker Speak is a weekly video series on YouTube where we explore Quaker experience and action by introducing you to people with vital ministries.
Our 48 videos in Season 1 touched on topics ranging from “the history of plain speech” to “racism and the blessed community” to “what to expect in Quaker meeting for worship”.
We can be playful too, like our video about the Quaker Problems Meme.
We are excited to be embarking on our second season.
There are many things that will feel familiar in Season 2, to fans of Season 1. You can still expect a new video every Thursday, for example. And we’re also mixing things up a bit. We have some fun new video ideas in the works and we also have some exciting new partnerships to announce.
Before we announce those, I want to tell you that you can browse all of our videos at our website, QuakerSpeak.com.
The simplest way to keep up with the QuakerSpeak project is by subscribing. When you subscribe to QuakerSpeak, you’ll get a weekly email with our newest video.
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You can also follow us on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook.
Quaker Speak is a project of Friends Journal, a monthly Quaker magazine in print and online. Subscriptions are just $28 a year for new subscribers.
This year, QuakerSpeak is partnering with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby in the public interest. Quaker lobbyists are on Capitol Hill every day working for a more just and peaceful world. Click here to find out what’s happening and how you can get involved.
We’re also working with American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice as a practical expression of faith in action.
My name is Jon Watts and I am the director of the QuakerSpeak project.
If you’re interested in getting in touch, just comment on this video. Or, email me at QuakerSpeak@FriendsJournal.org.
As always, we appreciate your engagement. We work hard on each week’s video, so leave us a comment and let us know what you thought!
Thanks for watching! See you on Thursday!
We’d love to have a video about Quaker House- do we have a chance? We could include videos of some of the folks we’ve helped and show off our many projects/missions. We are such a unique Quaker organization. thanks, Lynn and Steve Newsom, Directors
Hi Lynn and Steve!
We’re happy to consider it. Email me with some more details! QuakerSpeak at FriendsJournal dot org
Jon
Thanks, Jon, for this “warning.” Once again, something wonderful to look forward to on Thursday evening when I come home from work. Of course I anticipate your excellent regular work, but also look forward to the pieces aided by the new sponsors.
Please be careful with in musical background to your speaker. For those (elderly) Friends with hearing impairment it is much more of a strain to listen to what is being said against a background of music. Having a music background was the common thing in the 50s and 60s of the last century when I was growing up here in England, especially on news films and such like, but the idea of background music seems to have gained popularity once more and now I am older it can be a real problem.
But please keep up the good work! I look forward to your weekly slot on my Iphone wherever I am! Love and blessings to you all, Noël.
Thanks for your comment, Noel! If you’re ever having trouble understanding what someone is saying in a QuakerSpeak video, just hit the “CC” button at the bottom of the video frame. This will enable closed captions. More info here.
Excited about this 2nd season. Love the purposefulness of QuakerSpeak.
I want to subscribe . How much?
Marybeth
Free!
QuakerSpeak.com/Subscribe
As someone who is new to Quaker faith and practice, I enjoyed and appreciated Season One of QuakerSpeak. It was helpful, interesting, illuminating, and encouraging. So glad that you will continue the project!
Thank you MaryBeth! We are too!
Thank goodness for the second year of Quaker Speak – and you, Jon Watts, & other individuals involved as well as your new sponsors.
Noel Staples is spot on about the background music. It makes it very hard for those of us with hearing impairment to understand what is being said..
Good to hear from you, Maria! Thanks for your support and encouragement.
Most QuakerSpeak videos do not have background music, but regardless, if you’re ever having trouble understanding what is being said, I would recommend that you enable closed captioning. (Just hit the CC button at the bottom of the video frame)
-Jon
Jon, if we were subscribed last season, do we need to re-subscribe? (I hope not! And think not since this announcement showed up in my email. But just checking. Wouldn’t want to miss a week!)
Hi Joann! No need to re-subscribe, we’ve got you. thanks, Jon
Great series. I used two videos at a meeting of the Western Quarterly (associated with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) last year (2014). The videos helped to engage the audience, develop community, and foster meaningful, thoughtful conversation.
Thanks for the comment, Tonya! Glad that Western Quarter found our videos useful. Please let me know if there’s any topic that would be particularly helpful for us to cover.
SO glad you are back for a second season, Jon. When I didn’t get a video for weeks, I was worried that you might have run out of energy for this wonderful project. I was dearly hoping QuakerSpeak was not just a Divine flash in the Quaker pan. : ) I look forward to your continuing education of new and old Quakers alike, and am so grateful for this QuakerSpeak ministry.
Thanks so much Allison! Being no stranger to burnout, I was really grateful to have an offseason built into the plan! Now excited to be getting back to work.
Quaker Speak makes a lot of sense. It really seems to be adding a higher level of explaining to all of the pieces of Quakerism that are really pretty hard to explain to everyone. Finally a place where I can refer people who might be interested in becoming attenders or learning more! My answers are not everybody’s answers so the approach here of a variety of people speaking of their experience works for me.
Keep it up Jon!
Thanks Maggie!