Swarthmore Friends Meeting - Quakers

09/12/2026

Save the date for the 2027 in person FGC Gathering!

The 2027 FGC Gathering of Friends will be held at Illinois State University (Normal, IL, USA), from July 13 through July 18, 2027.

08/20/2026

Rashid Darden describes how Quakers encourage people to show up as they really are. He says that as a Black Friend he has been accepted for all that he is. In this video he talks about ways to make our meetings welcoming to all who may be interested.

“George Fox, the Valiant Sixty… Whoever your favorite Quaker hero is, [they] did not do this work so it could…

08/15/2026

A Quaker history professor, Steve Angell from Earlham School of Religion, gives a brief account of the beginning of Quakerism and the beliefs of the first Quakers.

Where did Quakers come from? What do they believe? And how did they get associated with oats? These are the…

05/23/2026

Peaceful dissent is an important expression of true patriotism.

“There’s this idea of country above everything else—and for Quakers, that gets in the way of your relationship to God,”…

04/13/2026

Swarthmore Friends Meeting has taken the ministry of our member Shulamith Clearbridge under its care. Here is a recent Quaker Speak video in which Shulamith speaks about Margaret Fell, one of the mothers of Quakerism. Shulamith leads workshops about the spiritual life, including ones based on the writing of Margaret Fell.

Margaret Fell was a judge’s wife, living in a manor home in northwest England in the mid-seventeenth century. One day,…

03/14/2026

https://www.pym.org/swarthmore-meeting-statement-on-ice/

As people of faith who are convinced that the Divine dwells within every human being, we feel called to bear witness to the profound harms of current immigration enforcement practices in the United States. These actions, and the current government that supports them, are in opposition with a spiritu...

03/10/2026

Dreams have been an important source of guidance in my life for decades. In recent years, I have finally begun to focus on dreams in my writing and teaching. They were an important way that the first Quakers received divine guidance and could be so again today.

I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. — Joel 2: 28 When I first began pay…

03/07/2026

Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead tonight!

02/06/2026

https://quakerspeak.com/video/online/

Emily Provance is no stranger to virtual worship -- as someone who travels full-time in the ministry, she’s used to remote worship. In this virtual interview Emily explains how Quakers can use online connection not only now, but in the years to come.

01/25/2026

Quaker Tenaja Henson talks about the spiritual foundation of her activism and how taking care of her body is part of what's needed.

“For a while,” Tenaja Henson says, “my activism looked like showing up and holding space—and I think that is just…