The Original 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery is on view at Arch Street Meeting House The original 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery will be on view from June 29 to August 9, 2026. The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was last publicly exhibited in the summer of 2007 at the National Constitution Center. This Summer, it will return to Arch Street Meeting House for the first time since 2006, where it was discovered after its nearly two-century disappearance from the historical record. [Read more…] about The Original 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery Is On View at Arch Street Meeting House | Press Release
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Shulamith Clearbridge: Prayer, Companions, and Good Night
Shulamith Clearbridge worships with Swarthmore Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service from the meeting. Her new book, Good Night: Interfaith Prayers & Meditations Before Sleep, grew from years of collecting prayers, quotations, poetry, and reflections that accompanied her through periods of caregiving, change, and spiritual searching. Published this year by Wipf and Stock Publishers, the book gathers readings from many faith traditions and secular sources into a nightly practice intended to help readers put the day to rest so they can sleep well. [Read more…] about Shulamith Clearbridge: Prayer, Companions, and Good Night
Here’s How to Catch a Screening of “Becoming Benjamin Lay” in May | Press Release
For more information about the events in the following press release, contact Salma Garcia Nolasco of Abington Friends at AMM@abingtonfriends.net, Lee Hall of Radnor Friends at climatelaw@me.com, or N. Chiyo Moriuchi of Newtown Friends at ncmoriuchi@yahoo.com.
The Quaker community is excited to announce screenings of Becoming Benjamin Lay, a documentary, in the Philly suburbs. Benjamin Lay was the Quaker “prophet against slavery” who, in the 1700s, pressed Quakers to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement.
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Robert Best and Sharing Messages Through Signs
Robert Best, an attender of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting can be found in Center City Philadelphia, near the plaza across from the Clothespin sculpture every Wednesday between 12:00 and 1:30. Robert stands there with a tall pole and a set of signs. [Read more…] about Robert Best and Sharing Messages Through Signs
At Haverford Meeting, a Friend Shares on Faith & Play and Multigenerational Learning
Erin Lehman serves on the planning committee for the Learning for Life – A Religious Education Thread Gathering. She is a member of Haverford Friends Meeting and is involved in religious education there, including Faith & Play.
“I want people to know the Thread Gathering is not just for families with kids,” Erin said. “It’s about all of us learning more about Quakerism.”
Knocking on Doors and Opening Theirs
On Friday, October 3, Newtown Friends Meeting opened their meetinghouse to visitors and neighbors during the town’s annual Market Day. Friends offered tours of the building and the burial grounds, where Edward Hicks, a co-founder of the meeting, is buried. Copies of Edwards’ Peaceable Kingdom paintings were displayed for guests who came through.
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Quakerly Juneteenth Read on Bayard Rustin
Western Quarterly Meeting and West Chester University’s African American Studies Program are coming together to celebrate Juneteenth and honor the life and legacy of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin—a Chester County native, committed Quaker, and key architect of the modern nonviolent protest movement. [Read more…] about Quakerly Juneteenth Read on Bayard Rustin
Providence Friends Meeting Added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program
The Providence Friends Meeting in Media, Pennsylvania, is among 31 new listings added by the National Park Service to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The new listings join more than 800 sites, facilities and programs already in the network that provide insight into the diverse experiences of freedom seekers who bravely escaped slavery and allies who assisted them. [Read more…] about Providence Friends Meeting Added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program
Art as Resistance: “The Return” Brings Quakers Another Chance to Know Benjamin Lay” | Radnor Friends Meeting
Authorship attributed to Friends from Radnor Friends Meeting
Opening night for The Return of Benjamin Lay in Philadelphia was fabulous!
Our field trip group carpooled from the Radnor Friends meetinghouse, and enjoyed vegan soul food at the Nile Cafe before the show. Jai A., who recently completed the Benjamin Lay Fellowship, was in the group. Author-historian and co-playwright Marcus Rediker stopped by and gave us an intro, setting our mental stages for what we were about to experience. [Read more…] about Art as Resistance: “The Return” Brings Quakers Another Chance to Know Benjamin Lay” | Radnor Friends Meeting
The Return of Benjamin Lay | Quintessence Theatre Group | Press Release
Press Release provided by Quintessence Theatre Group.
QUINTESSENCE THEATRE PRESENTS THE AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTION OF THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY BY NAOMI WALLACE & MARCUS REDIKER
The one-man show is inspired by the life of radical revolutionary Benjamin Lay, an 18th-century Pennsylvanian Quaker who advocated for the abolition of slavery in the American colonies
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