While some religious groups are known for their beautiful religious art or passionate preaching, the Quakers aren’t known for ...

(The Conversation) — Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by ...

To publicly proclaim the new Quaker religion on western Long Island was to risk arrest and banishment. To let a Quaker spend the night in your home could lead to a heavy fine. The early years of ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We have some teams that insist every lobby visit start with Quaker silence,’ said a staffer at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. WASHINGTON (RNS) — As the U.S. House ...

The Quakers, who like peace but also like to be practical, have quite understandably been worried about troubled U.S.Soviet relations. The American Friends’ Service Committee, which shared the 1947 ...

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)—the official non-governmental organization of the Society of Friends or the Quakers—won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. They deserved it. The group, true ...

Schteff Althouse wasn’t raised as a Quaker. In that sense, his journey to Quakerism is similar to many others who have chosen to follow that same path. When he was a child, Althouse’s family worshiped ...