Clearly Quaker Podcast

In this episode, Linell McCurry, Associate Secretary for Business and Finance at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, spoke about dwindling meetings and the need to plan for the future of your meetinghouse and property while there is still an active membership. Before joining PYM in 2012, Linell had a career in investment as a portfolio manager. She […]

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting‘s new Youth Engagement Coordinator, Melinda Wenner Bradley, came to Salem Quarterly Meeting for her first official visit to a meeting in this new position. She spoke on the topic of nurturing multigenerational spiritual community at Woodbury Friends Meeting for Salem Quarter’s December 2017 meeting.  Music credit: “Old Greenwich Friends Meeting House (1771)” […]

This episode of Clearly Quaker Podcast features the last talk of the September 2017 Salem Quarterly Meeting program “Quakers Know Prisons from the Inside Out: Towards Equal Justice, Freedom and Reform.” Speaker: Justin Loughry, Esq., Haddonfield Friends Meeting –  “Humanizing the Criminal Justice System: A Quaker Approach” Click here for the flyer for the program. Music […]

This episode of Clearly Quaker Podcast features two speakers from the September 2017 Salem Quarterly Meeting program “Quakers Know Prisons from the Inside Out: Towards Equal Justice, Freedom and Reform.” Speakers: Lisa Stewart Garrison, Elena Flynn Click here for the flyer for the program. Music credit: “Old Greenwich Friends Meeting House (1771)” from Down Jersey […]

This episode features a special story by storyteller Lucy Duncan given at Salem Friends Meeting. The story was part of AFSC’s Peace Works project. From Lucy’s AFSC bio:  Lucy serves as Director of Friends Relations for AFSC. She has been a storyteller for 20 years and has worked with Quaker meetings on telling stories for […]

Paul Somers, who normally does the intros to Clearly Quaker Podcast, was interviewed for this episode. In this podcast, Paul talks about his rich Quaker family history, his thoughts on Quakerism and his experiences as a Quaker during the Vietnam War. Paul is a member of Greenwich Monthly Meeting, clerk of the Salem Quarter Steering […]

Priscilla Adams, member of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, talked about refugee assistance at Woodstown Friends Meeting. From her experiences working with Catholic Charities, she discussed the refugee crisis, the struggles of refugees trying to establish themselves in America, and she shared personal stories of working with refugee children. If you have any interest in better understanding the refugee […]

The following podcast is a talk given by Norval Reece, author of Private Quaker, Public Quaker on the subject of revitalizing meetings. Reece is a member of Newtown Friends Meeting. He has served as Clerk of the Meeting, Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Earlham School of Religion, founding board member of C-SPAN, and currently […]

The following podcast is a talk given by Philip Lord, presiding clerk of the Board of AFSC at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on February 19th, 2017. Philip discussed Black Lives Matter, the Black Freedom Movement and AFSC’s role in helping make change in the world. Music credit: “Old Greenwich Friends Meeting House (1771)” from Down Jersey Scenes […]

The following podcast is a talk given by Rev. John R. Norwood PhD, who is the principal minister to the Prayer Circle Ministry, member of the Tribal Council and Principal Justice of the Tribal Supreme Court of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. In this talk, Dr. Norwood spoke about Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal culture at the […]