How Can I Keep From Singing?
Quaker musicians Aaron Fowler and Laura Dungan perform the song How Can I Keep From Singing
What to Expect in Quaker Meeting for Worship
What can you expect in a Quaker Worship Service? This is a guide for newcomers on the basics: what to expect in Quaker Meeting for Worship.
In William Penn’s Shadow
Philadelphia celebrates its founder more than any other American city, but who exactly is William Penn? For many, he is a statue atop City Hall, but Penn’s busy life reflected an era of chaotic upheaval and conflict. He is at once a radical Quaker, political prisoner, visionary city planner, absent landlord, and a slaveholder. His ideals, contradictions, and ambitions cast a long shadow across American history. This installment of Philadelphia: The Great Experiment explores what it means to live In Penn’s Shadow.
What is a Quaker?
What is a Quaker? Watch this quick 5 minute video and hear from 6 actual members of the Quaker religion. Most people are unfamiliar with the Quaker religion, or they confuse us for the guy on the Quaker Oats box. In this video, we ask 6 Friends what it means to be a practicing Quaker.
Are Quakers Amish?
This week’s Quaker video: “You’re a Quaker? You mean, like, Amish?” It’s something all Quakers have heard. Max Carter, professor of Quaker religion studies at Guilford College, tells us about the differences between Quakers and the Amish.
Quaker’s Oats
This video about Quaker Oats went viral in 2014. No one knows why.
#Quaker Problems
This week’s Quaker video: When these four Earlham College students were standing in line for hot dogs, one of them cracked a joke about something being a “Quaker Problem”. Little did they know it would become a full-on international Quaker meme within a matter of weeks.
Why Quakers Don’t Take Communion
Why don’t Quakers take communion? Why don’t they baptize? Early Quakers believed that the church was full of empty forms, and they sought the real substance of being filled by the Holy Spirit. Quaker professor Michael Birkel of Earlham College explains.
Paulette Meier: “Be Still and Cool” (George Fox Quote)
A quote by early Quaker George Fox, sung by Paulette Meier.
Thomas Kelly Essay: “Room for the Infinite”
Thomas Kelly (1893-January 17, 1941) was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism.