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Catholic to Quaker: Encountering a Holy Silence

Roberta Bothwell had spent more than a year training to become a Catholic nun when a family emergency took her…
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Reframing the Book of Revelation

“Revelation doesn’t have anything to do with predicting the end of the world,” explains C. Wess Daniels. Instead, the last…
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Who was Mahala Ashley Dickerson?

Mahala Ashley Dickerson was a trailblazer for justice who fought for marginalized people her whole life. A childhood classmate of…
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Am I Good Enough to Be a Quaker?

“What does it mean to me to be a bad Quaker?” Mary Linda McKinney asks. Behind that, though, is another…

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Welcome to QuakerSpeak—a video series from Friends Journal. We’ve been hard at work producing our eighth season of interviews with…
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Top 5 QuakerSpeak Videos of 2020

2020 has been quite the year for QuakerSpeak! Throughout this year’s quarantine we posted 34 videos and reached over 3.4…
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Do Quakers Celebrate Christmas?

Quakers believe every day is sacred, that we celebrate Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection all the time, not just at…
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Following a Spirit-Led Call for Activism

“For a while,” Tenaja Henson says, “my activism looked like showing up and holding space—and I think that is just…
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Responding to Gun Violence with 765 Flags

Gun violence is a huge social and public health crisis in the United States, including not just the mass shootings…
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Why Should We Choose Democracy?

Earlier this year, Quaker peace activist George Lakey started talking with friends and colleagues about the possibility that Donald Trump…
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A Spiritual Response in Times of Division

In any community, there will be times we find ourselves among people who don’t see the world the way we…

How Quaker Camp Changed My Life

“I was really, really anxious growing up and the prospect of going to sleep-away camp was not one that I…
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