Putney Friends Meeting

01/16/2026

LOVE AS ACTION, Quaker Public Witness
On Saturday January 17 at 12:00 p.m. Friends, members of other faith communities, and people of conscience will gather for one hour of silent public worship on the Putney Commons.

Our intention is that our presence will give hope to all who see us – to show that we can choose resistance - and remind everyone of our moral obligations to one another.

01/06/2026

Help in this ongoing concern is very appreciated!

Signed, sealed, and delivered!
With appreciation for the unflagging care of Putney Friends Meeting, who cooks for the Groundworks Shelter in Brattleboro each month, we wanted to offer some respite to the helpers and brought several casseroles over the river last night in the snow - enough to feed 60 people. Thank you to all who helped make this happen and to all our Friends who express their care on the regular ❤️

12/31/2025

"We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love and unity; it is our desire that others’ feet may walk in the same, and do deny and bear our testimony against all strife, and wars, and contentions that come from the lusts that war in the members, that war in the soul, which we wait for, and watch for in all people, and love and desire the good of all… Treason, treachery, and false dealing we do utterly deny; false dealing, surmising, or plotting against any creature upon the face of the earth, and speak the truth in plainness, and singleness of heart."
— Margaret Fell, 1660
Cofounder of the Religious Society of Friends

12/11/2025

Food for thought:
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, a real Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008)

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11/16/2025

Immigration Enforcement is Restricted

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09/17/2025

Peace, a photo from Plymouth, Vermont by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

Peace, a photo from Plymouth, Vermont by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

09/17/2025

Food for thought:
What power has love but forgiveness?

-William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963)

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09/17/2025

Northwest Quarterly Meeting Retreat at Bethany Birches

06/16/2025

Call for Peace for Palestinians and Israelis:

Putney Friends Meeting condemns the ongoing violence against Palestinians, highlighting the profound grief for both Palestinians and Israelis affected by recent conflicts. They denounce the Israeli…

06/16/2025

As Quakers, we seek to abolish all wars and the causes of wars. We feel a deep and profound grief for the people of Palestine, who are being subjected to a daily and furious assault from bombing, and for the deaths and suffering of the many Israelis and Palestinians resulting from Hamas’ attack of October 7, 2023 and the Israeli government’s response to that attack....

As Quakers, we seek to abolish all wars and the causes of wars. We feel a deep and profound grief for the people of Palestine, who are being subjected to a daily and furious assault from bombing, …

06/14/2025

Food for thought:
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)

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05/29/2025

Food for thought:
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963)

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