How do you know if members of your family were Quakers? Here’s how to research your Quaker ancestry.

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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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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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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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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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What is the Quaker approach to peace activism? For Anthony Manousos, it means that peace starts within.

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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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Why would you choose to be a Quaker? We asked 8 longtime Friends; we were blown away by their responses.

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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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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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