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Register: HERE Mary Kay Glazer, Mary Linda McKinney and Della Stanley-Green are founding members of the Quaker Spiritual Directors Network. On August 20th, join three veteran Quaker spiritual directors (all of whom have three names!) in exploring the practices that enable this exploration! According to Patty Levering in her 2006 piece for Friends Journal: Spiritual direction is an opportunity to…
Do we speak and hear truth with each other in our meetings? Adria DiCapua challenges us in this clip from a recent event, from our video library. The National Peace Walk is inspiring to many Quakers. Join organizer and filmmaker ross brubeck for a candid look at what it costs to speak and hear truth. Where does solitude become isolation, and what has this work asked of them? And where are our we,…
Layla Cuthrell, Incubator advisory board member and producer of QuakerSpeak, asking our workshop participants at Gathering about their calls to ministry. Friend Amanda Green, a minister like all Quakers are, or should be, was deeply touched by her experience with her cohort in both the workshop Friends Incubator for Public Ministry offered on telling the stories of our calls to ministry (some of…
Submit: HERE We're publishing a book! Constellation of Witness is a new collection of testimonies about public ministry by Quaker public ministers, fully illustrated by Joey Hartmann-Dow. Co-edited by Windy Cooler, Tom Hamm, and nova sturrup, this book seeks to tell the stories of public ministers together as a community, and to explore the ministries Quaker communities are called to together.…
Friends, it has been a season. A full, overflowing, surprising, sometimes overwhelming season and here we are, sprouting from the mud. nova sturrup and Ann Jerome tenderly, wisely lead our fellows cohort, April 2026, Pendle Hill. We have been too busy making things to stop and tell you about all of them in the last two months. This post is our attempt to remedy that and to review some of our posts…
Religious education has always been public ministry. Following Pentecost, Jesus’s disciples became apostles, students became teachers — the foremost religious educators of the early church. 17th century Friends traveled in the ministry sharing an emergent faith and developing practices. The 19th century invention of “First Day School” moved formation outside the home and family and placed…
Mary Crauderueff is the Curator of Quaker Collections in Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. She’s an archivist, a teacher, and a fierce advocate for access. She doesn’t just preserve Quaker history in the basement of the library. She helps people meet it. The beautiful parts. The damning parts. The parts we quote at each other like scripture. And the parts we try to slide past, hoping…
The Friends Incubator for Public Ministry is grateful to announce our first cohort of Fellows! This cohort represents a shared commitment to reclaiming public ministry as a communal practice rooted in worship, sustained by relationship, and accountable to the body. It includes the participation of five-yearly meetings on the East Coast of the United States. Baltimore, New England, New York,…
Over the past several months, as we have walked with Tom Hamm on the blog through the long, uneven landscape of Quaker public ministry, something surprising has taken shape. Taken together, these ministers George Fox , Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader , John Woolman , Lucretia Mott , Joseph Hoag , Elias Hicks , Joseph John Gurney , J ohn Wilbur , and David B Updegraff do not simply offer a string of…
Tom Hamm’s Thanksgiving Series on Public Ministers, Part Four of Four… well, let’s just say we are getting there in our own good time. If Monday’s post left you both grateful and slightly overwhelmed by the 19th-century Quaker world... Today Tom introduces us to David B. Updegraff (1830–1894), the man who helped turn one of the new branches of American Quakerism inside out again. Updegraff’s story…
