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Time for a story from Quaker history about immense bravery and nonviolent resistance: The Children's Meeting of 1663.Cli...
12/01/2026

Time for a story from Quaker history about immense bravery and nonviolent resistance: The Children's Meeting of 1663.

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Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "What would it look like if Friends revived ...
11/01/2026

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"What would it look like if Friends revived the essential principles of seventeenth-century Quakerism? The contemporary religious environment and civil structures are quite different from those of the 1600s, but… these still support a social order that is in many ways diametrically opposed to the values that animated early Quakerism. Our calling as a people of God has not been fulfilled.

Three fundamental challenges remain that will shape the way a revived Society of Friends will look to the surrounding world:

-Do we put God at the center of everything we do?
-Do we model a radical faithful society that is in the world but not of the world?
-Do we form faithful communities that worship together in love, trust, patience, joy, and humility?

I believe that when we face up to these challenges, our lives and our communities will be marked by joy."

Citation: Paul Buckley, 2018
Quaker historian and theologian

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "How were our hearts melted as wax, and our ...
10/01/2026

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"How were our hearts melted as wax, and our souls poured out as water before the Lord, and our spirits as oil, frankincense and myrrh, offered up unto the Lord as sweet incense, when not a word outwardly in all our assembly had been uttered!

…We met together and waited together in silence: it may be sometimes not a word in our meetings for months; but everyone that was faithful waited upon the living word in our own hearts."

Citation: John Burnyeat, 1691
Quaker traveling minister

"Say that one more time and I'll tell my big brother to come over here and hold you in the Light!"
09/01/2026

"Say that one more time and I'll tell my big brother to come over here and hold you in the Light!"

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "'The Power of the Lord' had multiple meanin...
07/01/2026

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"'The Power of the Lord' had multiple meanings for Fox and other early Friends, but the most common use of the phrase was to refer to a sensible, divine power or energy. Friends would experience this power surrounding them or flowing through their bodies under a variety of conditions, but most often at the point of convincement, when facing a trial, or during meeting for worship. An experience of the power was often associated with some kind of involuntary physical or mental phenomenon. When seized by the power, some Friends quaked, vocalized, or fell unconscious to the floor, while other Friends saw brilliant light, had visions, experienced healing, or felt a force emanating from them that was capable of subduing an angry and hostile mob…

Far from being some kind of aberration or even unique to Quakers, these phenomena represent 'archetypal forms' of religious expression, a 'surging, ever-present undercurrent' of religiosity, usually suppressed, but occasionally breaking to the surface when conditions allow. While I am not suggesting that we return to the 17th-century worldview, I do think that we have a lot to learn from these experiences of the early Friends, if only we take them seriously and view them from the vantage point of the increased knowledge available to us today."

Citation: Scott Martin, 2001
Member of Centre Meeting in Centreville, DE

Do Quakers have their own calendar? Yes, in a way!Early Quakers avoided using names of days and months because many came...
05/01/2026

Do Quakers have their own calendar?

Yes, in a way!

Early Quakers avoided using names of days and months because many came from Norse or Roman gods or political figures. Instead, they used a plain-speech calendar:

January is "First Month."
February is "Second Month," etc.

Sunday is "First Day."
Monday is "Second Day," etc.

So today is Second Day, the 5th of First Month.

Some Friends still use this naming convention today, especially in written minutes or formal documents, because it reflects the Quaker commitment to simplicity and truth in language.

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "Give over thine own willing, give over thy ...
04/01/2026

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"Give over thine own willing, give over thy own running, give over thine own desiring to know or be anything and sink down to the seed which God sows in the heart, and let that grow in thee and be in thee and breathe in thee and act in thee; and thou shalt find by sweet experience that the Lord knows that and loves and owns that, and will lead it to the inheritance of Life, which is its portion."

Citation: Isaac Penington, 1661
Early English Quaker

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "Throughout the writings of early Friends ru...
03/01/2026

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"Throughout the writings of early Friends runs one all-pervading, overpowering thought – that of the Light within. In every human heart, they tell us, there speaks the voice of God, and we have heard Him. The Light of Christ shines still for all men in the inmost of their souls, and in obedience to its influence lies hope… The Gospel of early Quakerism was a religion universal and real."

Citation: T. Edmund Harvey, 1905
Quaker museum curator, social reformer, and politician

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2026!
01/01/2026

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2026!

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "We are a people that follow after those thi...
31/12/2025

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"We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love and unity; it is our desire that others’ feet may walk in the same, and do deny and bear our testimony against all strife, and wars, and contentions that come from the lusts that war in the members, that war in the soul, which we wait for, and watch for in all people, and love and desire the good of all… Treason, treachery, and false dealing we do utterly deny; false dealing, surmising, or plotting against any creature upon the face of the earth, and speak the truth in plainness, and singleness of heart."

Citation: Margaret Fell, 1660
Cofounder of the Religious Society of Friends

In December 1938, three American Quakers set off on a secret mission to Berlin to meet with the N***s. It was a month af...
29/12/2025

In December 1938, three American Quakers set off on a secret mission to Berlin to meet with the N***s. It was a month after the terror of Kristallnacht, when Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues across Germany were destroyed, and Rufus Jones, D. Robert Yarnall, and George A. Walton hoped to secure permission to help Jews leave Germany and provide humanitarian aid.

Their mission was exposed by the press mid-voyage, prompting N**i propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to mockingly call the Quakers the “Three Wise Men.” When the group arrived at Gestapo headquarters, they presented a statement reminding the N**i officers of Quaker relief efforts after World War I, when Friends had fed over a million German children a day.

When the officers withdrew to deliberate with Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of Kristallnacht, the three Quakers bowed their heads in silent worship.

The N**i officers returned, and every request was granted. That fragile opening allowed hundreds of Jews to emigrate and enabled wider relief that saved countless others.

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe "I hope you have had a season full of warmth...
28/12/2025

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"I hope you have had a season full of warmth and light in the northern hemisphere’s darkest month of the year. The holidays have the potential to bring joy, togetherness, and hope, but for some they may bring feelings of stress, loneliness, or grief. So however December was for you, for the New Year, I wish you rest.

We spent the last month exploring the relationship between rest and spirituality. Each of us deserves rest, not because we’ve 'earned' it, or because we are preparing ourselves for productivity, but because we have divine light within us, inherent value. Setting aside regular quiet time for contemplation and centering, known as 'retirement', was an important devotional practice for early Friends that can still strengthen us today: a cleaning up of our spiritual living room in preparation for a more meaningful corporate experience at meeting for worship. That’s not to say that busy people have no time for retirement! There are small devotions that you can fold into your daily routine so that even scrubbing the floor becomes an act of prayer."

Citation: Maeve Sutherland, 2025
Editor of the Daily Quaker Message

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