Quakers believe that a higher power can speak through them, and it can be challenging to discern when that still small voice is God’s, and when it’s our own. This QuakerSpeak video shares the perspectives of several Quakers regarding what it’s like to experience a leading to speak during worship.
Sabrina Darnowsky
CFM Roots: Aversion to Outward Sacraments
Since its inception in the mid-seventeenth century, the Religious Society of Friends has emphasized that true faith comes from an internal transformation rather than any external event, and that baptism and communion are spiritual rather than physical experiences. Even though over time Quakers were being influenced by mainstream Christian denominations
CFM Roots: Marriage in the Manner of Friends
Although some of the ways in which Friends lived their faith were changing in the nineteenth century, certain practices continued to distinguish Quakers from other denominations. Some of these customs were rooted in tradition; others reflected deeply cherished beliefs about their relationship with the Divine and with each other. Although
CFM Roots: Greater Ecumenism
Ever since the days when they worked closely with members of other denominations in opposing slavery, Cincinnati Friends began to see themselves less as a separate people and more as part of the wider Christian community. As such, they contributed funds to the Hamilton County Sunday School Association, Joint Protestant
A Quaker in Guimarães
Early Friends disapproved of the fact that the days of the week were named after pagan gods, so they decided to use a strictly numeric nomenclature system: Sunday became First Day, Monday became Second Day, etc. So as a Quaker who has recently relocated to Portugal, I was delighted when