Middletown Friends Meeting at Langhorne

05/29/2026

A little Quaker humor!

It all started with a fox. No, an actual fox. One got loose in a steeplehouse during a service, cleared everybody out, and the vicar called in a fox catcher. When the fox catcher noticed how peaceful it was in the silent church, she had an idea....

Put your own cockamamie Quaker origin story in the comments!

05/23/2026

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We cannot hope to transfer more than a little of our wisdom to our young people – if wisdom it is. We have increasingly to stand back as they grow older, knowing that the problem is passing out of our hands. They go off to college – or to live in a flat of their own, that aim and delight of so many young people. At last they have privacy, freedom from supervision and criticism, independence – but they are now fully exposed to all that we fear….

This is the moment of disengagement, when parents must tell themselves that the young people are no longer their children and that they are outside their discipline…. It is also the moment for parents to tell themselves that their children are not alone. They are in the hands of God.

Citation: Kenneth C. Barnes, 1960
Quaker educator and founder of the Wennington School

05/22/2026

Your Quaker chuckle for the day…

And, like, bonnets I guess.

05/22/2026

Need space for a project? Join us in Pendle Hill’s sanctuary to center down and write in community with other Friends. Enjoy Pendle Hill’s library, art studio, walking trails, and communal meals and refreshments, with time to come together to worship, share your work as led, and explore what it means to be a Quaker writer. https://pendlehill.org/calendar/writers-retreat/

05/20/2026

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Waiting on the Lord rests on the realization that our understanding is a continuing process of learning more about Truth, of gaining new glimpses of the Light, of coming closer to God. We believe in continuing revelation. Parenting is certainly an ongoing experience of continuing revelation! Our children show us new facets of themselves continually. As they grow, they present new challenges that compel us to rethink our beliefs and how we understand them, beliefs about the world and about ourselves. That questioning can be about our very relationship to God.

Citation: Harriet Heath, 2009
Psychologist and member of Friends Counseling Service

05/20/2026

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, one historian is marking the occasion with a journey along the Underground Railroad.

05/17/2026

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Children are fully spiritual beings. They often see and sense the sacred in everyday life more readily than adults do! If we listen to them carefully and bring this awareness to their art projects and other forms of expression, we may detect a transcendent quality to their experiences.

Lack of a sophisticated vocabulary can obscure this reality, but if we listen carefully, we can often perceive evidence of early encounters with Spirit. Looking through a less complicated and less cluttered life lens, children seem to have more immediate encounters with the Divine Presence and they receive stirrings of the heart at face value. All of this makes childhood the perfect time to begin sharing about prayer and worship.

Citation: Beth Collea, 2020
Quaker religious educator

05/16/2026

Join us for this free screening of "Becoming Benjamin Lay." Benjamin Lay was an early and vociferous abolitionist whose outsized personality got him thrown out of Quaker meetings throughout England, PA, and NJ. The story of this tiny man and his outrageous guerrilla theater protests against slavery was first a book, then a play, and now a documentary about how his actions and movitations were embodied for the stage. Benjamin Lay is an important figure in history. This event is co-hosted by Middletown Friends Meeting at Langhorne, First Baptist Church of Langhorne, and Bethlehem Amec Langhorne as part of the Langhorne Borough’s 150th Anniversary - A Year to Celebrate .
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! Registration is requested so we can plan for light refreshments. https://tinyurl.com/22pked66