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Friends Center, Philadelphia

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The Quaker hub for peace and justice. Space for worship, nonprofit offices, and events in Philadelphia. www.friendscentercorp.org.

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Friends Center board of directors has started a search for our next executive director. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share with folks who have relevant experience. Thanks to our equity partner @afsc-org.bsky.social for supporting the search! Full posting:
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
AP story on young adults showing up to Quaker worship at Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia! We've seen this here, at Central Philadelphia Friends Meeting, and in other nearby meetings, too.
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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 Old City Philadelphia.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"Recent years have produced an unprecedented surge in the number of attendees at Sunday worship — from about 25 before the coronavirus pandemic to up to 100 today." Good to see. Arch Street was where I was when I decided to become a Quaker member. www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Our executive director since 2015, Chris Mohr, will leave Friends Center staff as of 10/31/2025, to become General Secretary of @quakerspym.bsky.social, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers). (1/2)
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Join Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration w/ our next training on Sun. 11/23 2-5 pm, led by @eqat.bsky.social: Building Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Action Deepen your understanding & sharpen your skills! Quakers & non-Quakers welcome. Refreshments & childcare provided.
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Next Training for FC50: – Friends Center
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The next training in our 50th anniversary series is "Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Direct Action." Join trainers from @eqat.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23, 2-5 pm, here at Friends Center! Open to all, Quakers & non-Quakers alike! Details & registration here:
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Building Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Action - FC@50
This immersive training by CPFM & Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) will equip you with essential tools & strategies for direct NV action.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Join Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration w/ our next training on Sun. 11/23 2-5 pm, led by @eqat.bsky.social: Building Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Action Deepen your understanding & sharpen your skills! Quakers & non-Quakers welcome. Refreshments & childcare provided.
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Next Training for FC50: – Friends Center
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Coming up Sunday 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How faith communities can support immigrants. Part of Friends Center's 50th anniversary series of trainings on nonviolent action. Held here in Center City Philadelphia. Refreshments and child care provided. For Quakers and non-Quakers alike! Sign up here:
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How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Registration is open for the next workshop in Friends Center's series to celebrate our 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Here with @quakerspym.bsky.social next Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants
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How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
World Quaker Day is this Sunday! (Or, as earlier generations of Friends called it, and some still do today, this First Day.)
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
FCNL’s Stephen Donahoe reflects on finding hope, even in the worst places: “I am taking this reminder to seek out and cultivate resilience. I am taking this reminder to continue planting seeds, even in the rockiest soil.”
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Finding resilience, even in the worst places | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Recently I was traveling in Berlin for a long weekend with friends; I woke up in the morning of my last day convinced that I needed to visit Sachsenhausen, a nearby concentration camp. Throughout an o...
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
You can register here for our October 12th workshop on how faith communities can support immigrants. Open to Quakers non-Quakers alike!
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How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!
A white and green banner hangs on a black fence above a red brick wall. In the background are trees and the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse. The banner says, Friends Center 50th. 50th anniversary 1975-2025. The Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia. Learn peacemaking with us." There is a web address and a QR code that go to the web page given in the post.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!
A white and green banner hangs on a black fence above a red brick wall. In the background are trees and the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse. The banner says, Friends Center 50th. 50th anniversary 1975-2025. The Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia. Learn peacemaking with us." There is a web address and a QR code that go to the web page given in the post.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
At Stenton Museum in Philly, 9/30/25: "Wrestling with Justice" will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery & create an interpretive framework, programming, & exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved & free people at Stenton, & evolving 18th-C. Quaker attitudes re enslavement.
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Wrestling With Justice - Taking It To The Streets
WRESTLING WITH JUSTICE will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery and create an interpretive framework, programming, and exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved and free peopl...
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We continue our 50th anniversary training series Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm, with @quakerspym.bsky.social & New Sanctuary Movement of Philly. How faith communities can support immigrant justice, with updates on what’s happening on the ground & how to stand in solidarity. Open to all. Register here:
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How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.
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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'. Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times! You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...
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The Quaker Approach to the Bible
YouTube video by QuakerSpeak
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thanks to Lewis Webb of @afsc-org.bsky.social & Tonya McClary for leading our 1st training in Friends Center's series celebrating our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Next: @quakerspym.bsky.social on how faith communities can support immigrants, here on 10/12/25, 3-5 pm.
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Trainings to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary! – Friends Center
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 22/09/2025
"We believe that career development, spiritual and faith practice, and mental health are key to long-term peace and community empowerment," says Joyeuse Senga, co-founder and executive director of Friends Career Center, which serves the needs of young people in Rwanda and Canada.
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Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future
An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...
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Creating Community Safety Beyond Policing - FC@50
The US spends over $200 bn/yr on prisons & policing. Come learn how to develop community safety with transformative alternatives!
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...
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Creating Community Safety Beyond Policing - FC@50
The US spends over $200 bn/yr on prisons & policing. Come learn how to develop community safety with transformative alternatives!
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Friends Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a series of trainings on nonviolent action. First up: Community Safety Beyond Policing, with @afsc-org.bsky.social. Please share the flyer: friendscentercorp.org/wp-content/u...
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 12/09/2025
How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities? Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community. Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
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You can always ask me: intergenerational conversations about faith
Extract of an intergenerational conversation about Quaker faith
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Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Countdown is on! Our PFAS webinar is just days away. Learn how “forever chemicals” impact obesity, infertility, cancer, and more — and what we can do to protect public health. Featuring Megan Wolff, PhD, MPH. Reserve your spot today: buff.ly/wanQdyW
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home. If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.
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Offices Currently Available for Lease – Friends Center
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We have new @afsc-org.bsky.social banners to share with you all: "Quaker Communities are stronger with immigrants" 1/2
Banner on a black metal fence says, "Quaker communities are stronger with immigrants." The AFSC logo is in the upper right corner. The lower left has the url afsc.org/stronger. The fence is installed on a brick wall. In the background is a tree and the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse.Banner on a different black metal fence says, "Quaker communities are stronger with immigrants." The AFSC logo is in the upper right corner. The lower left has the url afsc.org/stronger. The fence is installed on a brick wall. In the background are trees and the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse. This is on Race Street.
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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition by Dutch colonists in protest of religious intolerance in the New Netherland colony that targeted religious minorities and including Quakers. None of the signers were Friends but they resisted their government in pursuit of religious tolerance. (1/2)
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
And just like that, the @afsc-org.bsky.social historical marker is back and looking better than ever. It notes AFSC as co-recipient of 1947 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Quakers. Thank you, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission!
Photo of a blue historical marker with yellow text that says, "American Friends Service Committee. Founded in Philadelphia in 1917, the AFSC has given practical expression to the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Its worldwide humanitarian work has reflected a commitment to nonviolence and justice. Co-recipient, Nobel Peace Prize, 1947." In the background is a tree, a brick building, a sidewalk, and a street with cars.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.
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Trainings to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary! – Friends Center
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 04/09/2025
Why are Quakers always at protests? 🪧 From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, Rhiannon Grant takes a look at why it's quite common to see Quakers marching with a banner. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/why-are...
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Why are Quakers always at protests?
From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, Rhiannon Grant takes a look at why it's not uncommon to see Quakers marching with a banner.
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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall! Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long! pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.
friendscentercorp.org
Trainings to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary! – Friends Center
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 01/09/2025
"I ultimately found my faith tested in these last years," says Evan Welkin, executive secretary of the FWCC Section of the Americas, "in a way that had nothing to do with Catholicism, perhaps even little to do with Quakerism but everything to do with God meeting me in the darkest places in my life."
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Shining Our Light Before Others - Friends Journal
A Quaker’s thoughts on the new American papacy.
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 02/09/2025
Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.
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REVIEWED: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation
"Lessons in resistance and solidarity” learned over the course of Eileen Flanagan's life-changing journey to protect the earth.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Quakers (aka Religious Society of Friends) are getting a lot of love on BlueSky lately! If you're interested to check out a Quaker meeting yourself, whether online or in person, Friends World Committee, Section of the Americas (part of @globalquakers.bsky.social) has this resource to find Friends:
fwccamericas.org
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Rut roh! Our other historical marker went missing. Fortunately, it's just that PA Historical & Museum Commission took this one down for maintenance, too! Our second sign commemorates Civilian Public Service and the involvement of Quaker, Mennonite, and Church of the Brethren agencies. 1/2
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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🎬 We're excited to share that the 2024 World Plenary Meeting Documentary is now live on our YouTube channel. Available in 4K quality, you might consider organising a screening for your Quaker group on #WorldQuakerDay, Sunday 5 October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrq...
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Living Ubuntu, a documentary about the 2024 World Plenary Meeting of Quakers
YouTube video by FWCC World Office
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 20/08/2025
Quakers today are "living in a time when we can see inaction is risky," Jade Rockwell, a pastor at West Elkton Friends Meeting in Ohio, says. "If we're not able to respond to our world, bad things can happen. And we may be morally responsbile if we aren't able to be responsive and active."
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Transforming Quakerism in Troubling Times - QuakerSpeak
“Quakerism started as a revival or renewal process for Christianity at a time when some folks were feeling like the…
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Friends have had a presence at our present site since the 1840s. The Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse was built in 1856. @afsc-org.bsky.social, founded here in 1917, has a historic marker recognizes their work for... Wait, what? It's gone! 1/2
A blue pole in the center of the photo has nothing on top. A yellow tag says "Historical Marker, down for Maintenance." On the right a banner on a fence says "Quakers welcome migrants with dignity." There are trees, mostly screening a red brick building with black & beige trim. A partially cropped and blocked sign says IENDS CE..ER. It is Friends Center's front entrance!
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If your Philadelphia nonprofit organization's mission aligns with Quaker values and testimonies, then Friends Center's Center City office space might be for you! Learn more:
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Office Rental – Friends Center
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Our series featuring all 30 organizations here at Friends Center, in alphabetical order, concluded today with @wtiusa.bsky.social. Read more:
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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Dive into the uncompromising clarity of 18th‑century Quaker John Woolman. He paid enslaved people for their labor, shunned sugar & luxury, confronted comfort with complicity, and practiced "near sympathy" with all. Unsettling, urgent, necessary. tinyurl.com/yk6am6r6 #Quaker #Ministry
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Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: John Woolman, Uncomfortable Truths, and the Urgent Work of Quaker Justice Today
“It’s sort of with fear and trembling I take up John Woolman... If ever an American Quaker qualified as a saint, it would be Woolman.” —Tom HammIt’s not every day that a Quaker historian calls someone...
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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Are you aged 18-35 and interested in connecting with others Young Adult Friends around the world, or know someone who is? The World Executive Committee for Young Adult Friends (WECYAF) is holding an international meeting for worship on Sunday 17 August. Find out more youngquakers.world/worship/
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Worship Together – World Executive Committee of Young Adult Friends
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The geometry of light as seen in the worship room at the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse here.
A view of the balcony in a Quaker meetinghouse. There are four windows set in a yellow wall, through which sunlight is streaming. There are raked rows of dark brown benches with dark orange-red cushions. To the right the first floor is visible. At the left rear a staircase climbs to the attic.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Next week is Philadelphia Solar Week 2025! How will you celebrate? #Philly #PhillyGreen #PhillySolar
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Philadelphia Solar Week 2025 ☀️ - Philadelphia Energy Authority
The seventh annual Philadelphia Solar Week takes place August 18-23. Monday August 18 (11:00 am – 12:00 pm): Exact Solar's Wrightstown Friends Meeting Solar Tour Tuesday August 19 (10:00 am – 11:00 am...
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
As we mark the 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pope Leo XIV called on the world to “reject the illusion of security founded on mutually assured destruction.” We can - and must - build a brighter future free from the shadow of nuclear weapons.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Speaking of this week's 80th anniversaries of the U.S. dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Bridget Moix of @fcnl.bsky.social recently wrote a Quaker argument for a world without nuclear weapons via @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy.
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80 years since Hiroshima, a world without nuclear weapons is still possible
(RNS) — Instead, the US government is pouring billions more of our tax dollars into building a new generation of nuclear weapons and planning to resume nuclear testing.
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 06/08/2025
In “Common Ground,” author Eileen Flanagan takes readers inside hard-fought climate victories while exploring the importance of acting in solidarity.
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A veteran climate organizer's new book shares lessons from the frontlines
In “Common Ground,” author Eileen Flanagan takes readers inside hard-fought climate victories, exploring the importance of acting in solidarity.
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Our thread of the Philly nonprofit organizations with office space at Friends Center is getting long, so we'll lift up today's post for the start of the week: Pennsylvania Health Action Network (PHAN).
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
PPC creates tools that political officials, opinion leaders, grassroots organizations, & the people of Pennsylvania need to expand our vibrant democracy, secure our freedom, & seek economic justice in Pennsylvania. P.S. Here's a sign they have pinned up in their workspace. /20b
Poster says, No tax giveaways for billionaires and corporations. Pennsylvanians together.
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