Thee Quaker

19/09/2025

My life goal is to be as cheerful as this Quaker woman who was arrested last month in the UK under the Terrorism Act for peacefully protesting at a Palestine Action related event.

For more context see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wn5gdv0wgo

17/09/2025

Today's Daily Quaker Message. Read the full quote: dailyquaker.com

16/09/2025

A group of Quakers embark on a grueling 300-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C. to deliver a powerful message to a government that doesn’t want to hear it.

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A group of Quakers embark on a grueling 300-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C. to deliver a powerful message to a government that doesn’t want to hear it.

15/09/2025

This Quaker organization runs the oldest Quaker school in the world and the fifth oldest elementary school in the United States. It was originally called the "Public Grammar School" when chartered by the namesake of Pennsylvania himself in 1689.

The school is ran by a board of 21 trustees who govern the school through the Quaker decision making process. Penn Charter was one of the first schools to offer education to people from all religious backgrounds, formal education to women, and education to people from all racial backgrounds. They enroll about 1000 students a year from pre-kindergarten to high school. Learning through community service is key to the curriculum here and students attend weekly meeting for worship in the Quaker fashion as well.

Read more at their website: https://www.penncharter.com/about-us

*Thee Quaker Project is not affiliated with William Penn Charter*

12/09/2025

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12/09/2025

The Historical Outreach and Time Machine Committee from your local meeting has given you a task. You must go back in time and invite any one historical Friend to a cordial dinner date. Who do you pick?? Bonus points if you pick a lesser known figure!

(depicted from left to right, top to bottom: George Fox, James Naylor, Elizabeth Fry, Paul Cuffe, Benjamin Lay, Lucretia Mott, John Woolman, Richard Nixon, Vera Mae Green.)

11/09/2025

In May, 300 Quakers walked from Flushing, NY to Washington DC, retracing the spirit of the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance in a modern call for immigrant justice. We joined them in NY, Philadelphia, and Washington to tell the story of the spiritual conviction, historical memory, and radical witness behind the walk. Each step becomes a prayer, each mile a quiet act of defiance—modeling the world Quakers hope to help build.

09/09/2025

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were bold advocates for abolition and women’s rights. How did they disappear from history?

Listen to this "re-released" episode here: https://quakerpodcast.com/the-grimke-sisters-how-two-southern-slave-owning-quakers-became-americas-fiercest-abolitionists-re-release/

08/09/2025

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition by Dutch colonists in protest of religious intolerance in the New Netherland colony that targeted non-Dutch Reformed Church members and especially Quakers in their colony. None of the signers were Quakers but they resisted their government in pursuit of religious tolerance and protecting their freedom of conscience.

It meant a lot to Quakers then and this document still has significance to North American Quakers 350 years later. In May 2025, American Friends undertook a "Walk to Washington" where they traveled 300 miles From Flushing, NY to Washington D.C. to deliver a copy of the document to the federal government in protest of immigration policies and "as a memorandum on the duty of those existing upon this land to uphold the guiding principle that all are welcome."

06/09/2025

“You can be a Quaker pirate too. You just have to try to do good without asking permission”
~ Todd Drake

Listen to the full episode here: https://quakerpodcast.com/quaker-graffiti-artist-todd-drake-on-doing-good-without-permission/