Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world

There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in ...
The Spectrum

Quakerism has no formal theology

Who are the Quakers? We are a Christian group that eschews religious hierarchy and institutions in favor of maintaining continuous and direct connection with God. As Robert Smith explains in “A Quaker ...
The Christian Century

The listening place: Among Quakers

An 18th-century painting of a Quaker meeting hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In it a figure, perhaps George Fox himself, stands speaking with such passion that his hand is clutching his ...
The New York Times

Can You Gather With God Over Zoom?

Quakerism goes virtual, offering an intimate window into silent worship. Photographs and Text by Bianca Giaever Mahayana Landowne, 51, in her childhood backyard in South Miami, Fla. For the past 27 ...
The Economist

Quakers ponder the ultimate religious question

THE QUAKERS are well-known as the least doctrinaire of all the religious movements that have emerged from Christianity. Silent reflection has been the hallmark of their gatherings ever since 1652 when ...