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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 11/10/2026

Dramatic Reading Brings Fiery 18th-Century Philadelphia Quaker Abolitionist to Life in Langhorne on Thursday | The event at Middletown Friends Meeting House on Oct. 15 offers patrons a chance to experience a one-of-a kind Philadelphia abolitionist’s story in “The Return of Benjamin Lay.”

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Dramatic Reading Brings Fiery 18th-Century Philadelphia Quaker Abolitionist to Life in Langhorne on Thursday - Bucks County Beacon

The event at Middletown Friends Meeting House on Oct. 15 offers patrons a chance to experience a one-of-a kind Philadelphia abolitionist’s story in “The Return of Benjamin Lay.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My younger kid just moved to California in the last week, and, yes, I did text him a link to "Going Back to Cali" because that's what elder Gen X dads do.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Huh. Interesting. Thanks for the report.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is the association of Friends meetings and communities across Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Those searching for Quaker worship opportunities can find them at www.pym.org/meetings/

Find a meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting connects 10,000 Friends across 100+ meetings and ministries; explore Quaker worship opportunities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey at PYM.org/meetings.

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@chrismphl.bsky.social and me on our annual outing to @phillies.com

A man and a woman in red shirts high above a green baseball field after dark

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On September 19, Friends will gather over Zoom for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Finding Friends: Outreach and Faithful Sharing. Friends can learn more at pym.org/findingfriends

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This year’s One Pamphlet, One Yearly Meeting selection is Pendle Hill Pamphlet 495, Patterns of Racial Wounding and Racial Justice in Quaker Communities, by Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson. Learn more at bit.ly/4yd19HW

Lauren Brownlee (left) and Zenaida Peterson (right)

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 22/08/2026

Because Whittier Mikkelsen didn't meet anyone else with cerebral palsy until she was 22, she felt strange growing up. "The Quakers gave me the strength to be myself," she says. "They just brought me right in, even with my spastic body... Nobody pushed me away, so I felt absolutely seen & included."

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My Life with Cerebral Palsy: Finding Equality in a Faith Community - QuakerSpeak

When Carl Sigmond is with other Quakers, he tells us, he does not feel like his cerebral palsy sets him…

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

4th Cir. holds that DHS' policy allowing immigration enforcement at or near houses of worship likely substantially burdens religious exercise in violation of RFRA. Case comes from a coalition of Quaker, Sikh, and Cooperative Baptist congregations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We hold that the plaintiffs have standing to pursue their claims. Based on the evidence before the district court, it reasonably can be predicted that many immigrants will decide not to attend the plaintiffs’ houses of worship because of the new policy. So, the plaintiffs’ asserted injury of a decline in attendance at worship services and other activities is fairly traceable to the new policy and likely will be redressed by an injunction limiting the policy’s application. We also hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their RFRA claim, because the plaintiffs adequately demonstrated that DHS’s new policy substantially burdens their religious exercise.2 Finally, we hold that the government waived its claim that the new policy satisfies the requirements of strict scrutiny by failing to present any legal argument or evidence before the district court. We therefore affirm the district court’s order imposing the preliminary injunction.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Appeals court upholds injunction blocking DHS warrantless immigration enforcement at churches in Cooperative Baptist Fellowship & several regional Quaker groups, & at a Sikh Temple in California: democracyforward.org/news/press-r... Background here: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/judge-free...

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Fourth Circuit Upholds Order Protecting Houses of Worship From Unlawful Immigration Enforcement

Appeals Court Leaves in Place Injunction Blocking Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful Intrusion into the Sanctity of Houses of Worship

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Woodbrooke @woodbrooke.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A Neave Brayshaw, 1921 Quaker Faith and Practice 2.69

A Friends’ meeting for worship finds no room for debate or for answering (still less for contradicting) one another; if this is desirable, it will be left for another occasion. And if anything should seem to be spoken amiss, the spiritually minded worshipper will have the wit to get at the heart of the message, overlooking crudity and lack of skill in its presentation, and so far from giving way to irritation at what seems unprofitable, he will be deeply concerned for his own share in creating the right spiritual atmosphere in which the harm fades out and the good grows. Many a meeting has known this power, transforming what might have been hurtful into a means of grace.

A Neave Brayshaw, 1921
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 07/08/2026

This week's QuakerSpeak video explains how seekers can find their first Quaker meeting with the help of our searchable directory. Just as importantly, however, we discuss how people from marginalized communities can reassure themselves that they'll be walking into a truly inclusive environment.

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Looking for a Quaker Meeting Near You? Try This! - QuakerSpeak

“One of the main reasons meeting for worship is so important in Quaker community,” says Ron Hogan, “is that coming…

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In summer 1987, DJ Helen and I reproduced Long Song Weekend in a small way, for just enough time to repaint the Studio A purple. (No Tull, more Can.)

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh, yes! If it's the same one I listened to on @wprb.com in 1983 or so, Mark Dickinson played a set of very short songs in the middle of the weekend.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Took the @septaphilly.bsky.social regional rail today. I could see the Schuylkill more clearly in the afternoon when the rain was gone, though the windows were a bit streaky.

A river between green banks reflects a blue sky with clouds near the horizon. There are power lines at the top and railroad tracks at the bottom.

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If I say best anti-war punk bands (or songs), what's your top 3?

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I almost put Detention as an honorable mention. Along with Desperate Bicycles (who provided the theme song for @danakatharine.bsky.social 's "Don't Back the Front" on @wprb.com). And Chumbawumba and Mekons.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just shows that 3 is the loneliest number! We need a longer list.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As illustrated by the t-shirt that Napalm Death's singer recently wore on NPR's Tiny Desk! youtu.be/e81LZCHhNKQ?...

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Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Point taken. I'd maybe consider taking out DK'S (more satirical than anything). I'd leave Crass, because one of their songs was, "Fight war, not wars!" youtu.be/EV4a786hZzE?...

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Crass - Fight War, Not Wars (1978)

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also, sending signals to @whuppy.bsky.social while I'm at it.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not necessarily in order: Crass Dead Kennedys Minutemen

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dr. Christy Randazzo posits a Friends' testimony of interdependence connecting Isaiah 11 and 1 Corinthians 12 in their love letter to our Quaker family at Annual Sessions of @quakerspym.bsky.social

Christy Randazzo, a person with a salt and pepper beard and multi-colored leaf earrings and tortoise shell glasses, standing behind the lectern with Cheyney University seal

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

15 years for me, 347? years for Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. I still look forward to sessions every year.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Prayer flag I made at @quakerspym.bsky.social Annual Sessions in 2011, I think. I shared it with staff today as we prepared for today's start of 2026 Annual Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers).

Square of cloth on wood surface reads:
Isaiah 58:
Liberation for the oppressed
Feed the hungry
House the homeless
Help your kind
Then your LIGHT will SHINE
=Building the Kin(g)dom=

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My @wprb.com 103.3 FM t-shirt has people* asking questions already answered by the shirt. *People like @jon.wprb.com, who wanted to know if folks got their shirts!

Pale-skinned, mostly bald human with full beard and mustache and brown glasses smiles while taking a selfie. The person's purple t-shirt says WPRB 103.3 FM in topsy-turvy lettering. The graphic shows cats watching fish splashing among lines that represent waves in water. It is another whimsical premium gift for WPRB donors. Go to https://pledge.wprb.com and you can get one, too.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are over 100 meetings in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey that are part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Find a Quaker meeting or Friends worship opportunities near you at pym.org/meetings

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WPRB 103.3 fm @wprb.com · 15/06/2026

Hello, WPRB is now on Bluesky. Please tell your friends (and one enemy).

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

(Seriously, hope all is well by you.)

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That was their 24th studio album, right?

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

National Gun Violence Awareness Day will be observed this year on June 5. As part of that wider conversation, Melinda Wenner Bradley, recently shared ways adults can approach conversations with children about guns violence: www.pym.org/talking-to-c...

Quote Image: “Being able to demonstrate any level of action, whatever works for you, shares that there is hope and we have agency,” with a photo of Melinda Wenner Bradley.

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"The Problem of God" course has been taken by almost all Georgetown students in the last 60 years. #GUReunions

Three professors on stage, two white Jesuit priests in black with clerical collars, one younger white woman, in an ornately painted wooden hall with part of the audience.

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Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We could get some wind for the sailboat It would be very fresh and clean

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Harriet Tubman Journey to Freedom statue is currently on display at Old Kennett Meetinghouse on Kendal Drive in Kennett Square. Chris Mohr, the general secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, was interviewed by CBS Philadelphia. www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

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Historian walks enslaved Africans' route to Canada for America's 250th Birthday: "It's pretty humbling"

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, one historian is marking the occasion with a journey along the Underground Railroad.

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Robin Mohr @robinmsf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

At the Miller Theater with @chrismphl.bsky.social for the Opera Philadelphia presentation of The Black Clown, based on the Langston Hughes poem. Pictures online made me think this would be a more modern theater but it is plenty ornate.

A red velvet theater curtain surrounded by lights and carvings and painted murals

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting received this press release today from a Friend in the body regarding the 40X40WalkForReparations, which will take place on May 14. Learn more about the walk at www.pym.org/40x40walkfor...

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Friends are invited to return for worship, workshops, and fellowship across the week of Annual Sessions. Friends can join online through Zoom or in person for a day, the weekend, or the full gathering. Learn more and register at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Website or at bit.ly/4uCon8L

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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Discover how Friends Fiduciary is taking a seat at the shareholder's table, using Quaker values to persuade global brands to put humanity over quick profits. quakerpodcast.com/how-to-inves...

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How to Invest Like a Quaker

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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Stop leaving money to the "experts"! 🛑 Quakers Today explores Relational Finance—a "priesthood of all believers" approach to our wallets. Let’s move from an extractive economy to one that nurtures community. 🤝✨ Full episode out now! 🕊️ @friendsjournal.org www.quakerstoday.org

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Friends Historical Association is pleased to announce its grants application cycle is officially open for 2026-2027.! Funds are available in support of research, projects, and book subventions in the fields of Quaker History and Quaker Studies. The deadline for each application is June 19, 2026:

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Grants — Friends Historical Association

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Joey Szpilczak, a current junior at Germantown Friends School, did their junior project focused with a hope to give back to her community by working with different organizations and individuals, including Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Learn more at pym.org or at www.pym.org/a-junior-pro...

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Program and Religious Life Team with Intern.

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Continuing Revolution has given young adults many years of building skills, making an impact, and creating connections for community resistance. This year, Continuing Revolution will take place on-site at Friends Center in Philly & online. June 26-28. pendlehill.org/calendar/con...

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