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20/12/2025

Our team got together for a retreat a few weeks ago, and we couldn't resist making a silly holiday video.

It'll be our little gift to you when it drops on Christmas Eve.

We needed a lot of takes because we were cracking each other up the whole time!

20/12/2025

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

"All the nobler instincts of our race are born in solitude and suckled by silence. This solitude need be no far away wilderness in Nature; this silence need be no Himalayan peak. You stop for a second as you cross your city square and glance at the belt of Orion.

You lie awake for a while as you rest in your bed and listen to the storm; and behold! From a few simple elements belonging to that mystery which you have been brought up to call ‘Matter,’ there comes over you this reversion, this conversion, this transmutation of spirit.

Thinking of your mood later, you will say to yourself: ‘I felt that while I was listening to the rain.’ Or you will say to yourself: ‘I felt that while I was out in the wind.’ Or you will say to your friend, ‘It was that walk at dusk when I got as far as the river that made me change my mind!’"

Citation: John Cowper Powys, 1933
English novelist and philosopher

19/12/2025

🎅 'Twas the night before Christmas — I mean, wait...

18/12/2025

When Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland suddenly faced closure, students, teachers, parents, and alumni came together across generations to save the place that shaped their lives. In just nine extraordinary days of collective action—guided by Quaker values of community, care, and stewardship—they pulled their school back from the brink. Told over these nine days, this film is a story of grief, courage, and what it truly means to show up for one another.

17/12/2025

You deserve rest. Not because you’ve “earned” it, or because you are preparing yourself for productivity, but because you have divine light within you, inherent value.

This month our Quaker daily devotional is publishing a Quaker quote every day, encouraging you to rest and recharge. Quaker wisdom in your inbox is an excellent antidote to hustle culture!

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17/12/2025

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

"The worst disservice we could do would be to commit the heresy of identifying the act of contemplation with a block of empty time or with the provision of an empty space, or to limit it to a certain peculiarly endowed class of persons, or in Greek fashion, to a social class that was drenched with leisure. Contemplation is, as we have insisted, standard equipment, and can never be completely identified with vacant spaces in life or with freedom from responsibility."

Citation: Douglas Steere, 1975
American Quaker professor

15/12/2025

🎄 Looking for the perfect gift for Thee Quaker Podcast fan in your life? How about a book by one of the guests in Season 3? 🎁📖

“Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery” by Marcus Rediker and Michelle Markel (“Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Abolitionist That History Forgot”) is a children’s picture book that tells the story of Benjamin Lay, who fought slavery at a time when almost everyone else accepted it. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1818

“You are Changing the World Whether You Like It or Not,” by David LaMotte (“David LaMotte: Quaker Musician and Hope-Monger”) challenges some deeply held, though seldom examined, ideas we have about how large societal changes happen and what our own roles in those changes can and should be.
https://www.davidlamotte.com/product/you-are-changing-the-world-whether-you-like-it-or-not/

“Common Ground” by Quaker organizer Eileen Flanagan (“A Quaker Response to Crisis with Eileen Flanagan”) shows that ordinary people can build powerful movements for change with inspiring real-life success stories.
https://eileenflanagan.com/common-ground/

“The Gospels, A New Translation” by classics scholar Sarah Ruden (“Do Quakers Read the Bible?”) treats the books of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John with unprecedented precision, uniquely concentrating on the original words and sensitively reflecting on their historical and literary context.
http://sarahruden.com/book/the-gospels/

14/12/2025

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

"Turn therefore inwards, and all that is within you will demonstrate to you the presence and power of God in your soul, and make you find and feel it with the same certainty as you find and feel your own thoughts. And what is best of all, by thus doing, you will never be without a living sense of the immediate guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, always equal to your dependence upon it…"

Citation: William Law, 1760
Church of England priest and non-juror

13/12/2025

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"In Him sit down, who is above the subtle foxes in their holes, and the fowls of the air in their nests; I say, sit down in Christ, who hath no place among them to lay his head; He is your rest. So in him is my love to you all."

Citation: George Fox, 1682
Cofounder of the Religious Society of Friends

12/12/2025

Indulge a little this season. 😉

11/12/2025

In this week’s video, Quaker educator Tom Hoopes gives a three-minute crash course on the origins of Quakerism.

Quakerism arose during a period of political and religious upheaval in 17th-century England. Early Quakers spoke plainly and refused to defer to religious, social, or political hierarchy, leading to imprisonment. Yet in prisons their numbers only grew as their message continued to spread. Ultimately, to quell the peaceful rebellion for the Truth launched by this Religious Society of Friends, King Charles II sent them across the Atlantic to the New World.

10/12/2025

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

"At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest: for a man cannot retire any whither to be more at rest, and freer from all business, than into his own soul. Afford then thyself this retiring continually, and thereby refresh and renew thyself."

Citation: William Penn, 1682
Early Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

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