Surveillance State in 2026: Quaker Witness Against Three C’s By South Jersey Friends for Peace | Sixth Month, 2026 “Technology is a powerful tool in our witness work… But Tech can also be problematic, summed up in the three C’s: Creepy surveillance, Corporate exploitation, and Complicit partnership with military contractors.”— Quakers for Peace in Palestine/Israel […]
A Father’s Lost History of a Grandma’s Soother Day: Recovering Anti-War, Anti-Colonial Roots of Mother’s Day
“We ask for the ballot not as a privilege, but as a weapon. With it, we shall refuse taxation for war. Without it, we are but breeders of cannon fodder.”
— Julia Ward Howe, 1870
This is not sentimental. This is strategic.
Read the full South Jersey Quakers reflection.
When our World’s Unthinkable Stops Being Unthinkable
Prophetic & Universal Witness – We are people of the Word. The Hebrew prophets were not popular; they said what was true when the king was invested in a lie. The prophet Jeremiah watched a fabric of his society rip apart because “they have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14). We are there.
Spring Weekend of Worship with Attention to Music and Song
“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight…” –words often sung in Quaker meetings. This May 22–24, Woodbury Meeting—whosemeetinghouse has stood since 1715—opens its doors and grounds for Spring Weekend, aregenerative campout for all ages. Hosted by South Jersey Quakers and neighbors, withsponsorship from SouthJerseyQuakers and […]
Quickening in Thee for the Pines
Quickening in thee Pines? Spring into a Journey for new Way Opening to Meet, Sing, Play and Potluck! Dear Friends, Neighbors, Families, and Seekers, There are moments in the life of a community when something quiet but unmistakable begins to stir. Something you may try and write down but it comes out as jibberish. Not […]
Healing Earth’s InterWeb
Quaker Earthcare Witness is calling Friends and faith communities to take one practical step for the Earth this Earth Day: restore native habitat where you gather, worship, or live. Add your meetinghouse to the QEW Action Map and join a growing network of Spirit-led stewardship. #QuakerEarthcare #Sustainability #CreationCare
#FreedomWalk2026
#FreedomWalk2026 is a multi-week pilgrimage from historical sites of enslavement to sites of liberation, culminating on July 4th, 2026 (U.S. semiquincentennial). Walkers carry stories, names, and calls for reparative policy, land return, and truth-telling. The route includes partner stops with Burlington Meeting, Black churches, and land trusts.
Northern Dissonance & Our Call to Action in South Jersey
Northern Dissonance & Our Call to Action This section brings the story of desegregation, Brown vs Board of Education and Gradual Abolitionism home to South Jersey, examining our own history of “gradual” abolition, the Clark Township policing lawsuit, and the spiritual framework for reparations here and in the years to come as a country. While […]
The Girl Who Would Not Be Silent & The Walk to Richmond
This section highlights the 75th Anniversary March and the youth-led liberation movements of Virginia. Next Section focus is South Jersey On the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, a seven-foot bronze statue of a sixteen-year-old girl was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. Her name is Barbara […]
Cultural Revival Takes Hold at Historic Burlington Meeting
Burlington Meeting’s Jazz Vespers blends quiet contemplation with live jazz improvisation. Open to all spiritual backgrounds, this monthly gathering reimagines evening prayer through the lens of jazz — a music of freedom, dialogue, and presence.
