Haddonfield, NJ – Haddonfield’s Quakers invited the local community to replace symbols of hate found on their property with symbols of kindness, tolerance, and peace. Swastikas were spray painted on trees in the historic Quaker graveyard. These hate symbols faced not just the Quaker meetinghouse, but a preschool. Both the Haddonfield Friends School and the […]
Peace Testimony
“All bloody principles and practices we do utterly deny, with all outward wars, and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretence whatsoever, and this is our testimony to the whole world.” – Declaration to Charles II, 1660
History of the Religious Society of Friends of Trenton and Vicinity
A transcription of a 776-page document, compiled in 1931 by Friend Elizabeth Satterthwaite, is now available in electronic form thanks to the work of Fredrick L. Millner of Trenton Meeting. It traces the place of Quakers in the area from arrival of Mahlon Stacey in 1678 through 1931. The original document is housed at the Trenton […]
Newton Meeting Times and Spiritual Education Series
Meeting for Worship at Newton Meeting in Camden is currently being held virtually at 10:30 AM on the first and third Sundays of the month. They would welcome visitors from other meetings or people who are interested in learning more about Quakerism. On February 20, a discussion based on the last half of A Testament of Devotion by […]
Medford Meeting
On Sunday, December 19, Medford Meeting approved a resolution opposing plans to transport liquid natural gas (LNG) – fracked gas – by rail and truck from Pennsylvania to Gibbstown, NJ, for export. Meeting members voiced strong support for the resolution, recognizing the project as both an environmental justice and a climate change issue. Copies of the resolution were […]
Salem Quarter Tape Revival Project
Salem Quarter is pleased to announce the digitization and restoration of almost 140 audio cassette tapes dating from late 70s through the early 2000s. Many Friends may recognize the voices of those passed on, though fortunately many are also still with us.
Trenton Monthly Meeting: Annual Peace Vigil and Support for the Community
The tradition of a New Year’s Eve Peace Vigil continued this year with about half of the 30 participants in the Meetinghouse and the other half joining by Zoom. The Peace Vigil is one of the Meeting’s events for Trenton’s Patriots Week (Dec 26-Dec 31) celebration. In counterpoint to the theme of most events, the […]
Seeking Right Relationships with Native Americans
FCNL urges Friends to contact members of Congress about creating a Truth & Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. In 2016, Paula Palmer published an article in Friends Journal exposing practices at Quaker-run boarding schools with the express purpose was the destruction of Native culture and language. Sadly, child abuse and death occurred at some schools. […]
Films from the Gardner Documentary Group
Janet Gardner, a member of Princeton Meeting, has produced and directed a host of socially responsible, humanitarian focused documentary films over several decades which have been of great interest to Friends here and abroad. Examples include: plight of child soldiers; malformed victims of agent orange; abandoned mixed race Vietnam War orphans; North Vietnamese subterranean tunnel communities; […]
325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of….
Including Canadian Friends Service Committee, Quaker Peace and Social Witness (England) and Friends in AustraliaTo: Participants in COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, November 1-12, 2021 As a result of final-hour demands made by the U.S. government during negotiation of the 1997 Kyoto treaty, military greenhouse gas emissions were exempted from climate negotiations. That […]
