QuakerSpeak Podcast
A weekly Quaker podcast. Produced at Friends Journal, hosted by Jon Watts and edited by Charles Marchione. This audio is from our weekly video series. Watch all the videos at QuakerSpeak.com/watch
Episodes
June 8, 2019 • 8 mins
How do you know if members of your family were Quakers? Here’s how to research your Quaker ancestry.
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June 1, 2019 • 8 mins
How do Quakers “love thy neighbor”? For Michael Birkel, it meant crossing religious boundaries to have meaningful conversations with his Muslim neighbors.
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May 25, 2019 • 8 mins
How can Quakers play a role in racial healing? According to Sterling Duns, it’s going to take a lot of dreaming.
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May 18, 2019 • 6 mins
As Quakers, we have a practice of regularly asking ourselves tough questions. As Doug Gwyn points out, it helps us to live more authentic and integrated lives.
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April 28, 2019 • 5 mins
As a social worker, Melody George feels passionate about what she calls “mental diversity” in faith communities. How are Quakers in a unique position to build this diversity?
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April 21, 2019 • 6 mins
What is the Quaker approach to peace activism? For Anthony Manousos, it means that peace starts within.
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April 14, 2019 • 8 mins
Quaker painter Adrian Martinez works in solitude yet craves the communal silence of Quaker worship. We talk with him about art, spirituality, and how a poor kid from D.C. wound up painting for U.S. presidents.
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April 7, 2019 • 7 mins
Why would you choose to be a Quaker? We asked 8 longtime Friends; we were blown away by their responses.
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July 1, 2017 • 8 mins
What happens when you try to sit in silence for an hour? In this week’s QuakerSpeak podcast, seven Quakers offer stories about the challenge of being alone with one’s thoughts and the opportunity for grace and true communion on the other side.
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June 16, 2017 • 6 mins
Niyonu Spann, the Quaker founder of Beyond Diversity 101, talks about her idea of heaven and how she invites everyone (including white men) to fully bring it.
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May 28, 2017 • 6 mins
What does it take to be a Quaker? The six Friends in this week’s video explain that it’s simple, yet potentially radical.
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May 19, 2017 • 6 mins
Many Quakers have experienced the public confusion between Quakers and the Amish. Max Carter clears it up, once and for all.
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May 12, 2017 • 5 mins
How will we avoid succumbing to the crises facing us as humans and as residents of planet Earth? According to Marcelle Martin, a Quaker practice may hold the key.
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April 20, 2017 • 5 mins
This week on the Quaker Speak podcast: Noah Baker Merrill discusses sacramental living, Quaker Voluntary Service, and how our Quaker prophetic witness can transform the world.
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March 24, 2017 • 5 mins
When these four Earlham College students were standing in line for hot dogs, one of them cracked a joke about something being a "Quaker Problem". Little did they know it would become a full-on international meme within the course of weeks.
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March 17, 2017 • 7 mins
Victoria Greene’s son Emir was killed in 1997, one of countless victims society ignores. Now her ministry is to support families of murder victims and bring attention to the fact that every murder is real.
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March 11, 2017 • 6 mins
Eden Grace explains how the sacred discernment of seemingly trivial decisions can transform the world.
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March 4, 2017 • 6 mins
Quakers threw out everything they saw as “empty forms” in the church of their day, including communion and baptism. Earlham School of Religion professor Michael Birkel explains why.
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July 1, 2016 • 6 mins
Quakers say that “God dwells within everyone.” What does it look like to take that seriously?
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June 25, 2016 • 4 mins
How do Quakers read the Bible? While there may be many approaches, they all share a common thread, as Paul Buckley explains.
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