Find your spiritual refuge
If you've been looking for a faith community where you can be your full self maybe you've been looking for Quakers.
Upcoming Events
Faith communities are reclaiming sacred space through the Constitution. In a groundbreaking lawsuit filed by several Yearly Meetings and interfaith partners against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal court has issued a preliminary injunction barring immigration enforcement at or near the houses of worship of the plaintiffs.
While the government has sought partial dismissal of certain claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, First Amendment protections remain firmly in place. The injunction recognizes that immigration enforcement actions interfering with worship may violate constitutional protections of religious freedom and assembly.
This case represents a first victory in a broader movement to restore long-standing norms protecting sensitive locations such as churches, schools, hospitals, and elder communities. It demonstrates how disciplined nonviolence and constitutional law can work together to defend migrants and uphold religious liberty.
Meeting for Worship with Attention to Music and Song
Please share the following exciting update and invitation from the South Jersey Quakers (SJQ) Project Team with your meeting community.
In their latest letter, “‘Living Song, Living Music, Living Faith’ — SJQ Next Steps & Spring 2026 Vision,” the team shares reflections on nurturing a living faith and announces concrete steps for growth, including formalizing as a non-profit.
Most joyfully, they cast a vision for a Spring 2026 Tri-Quarter gathering: a “Meeting for Worship for Music and Song.” This would be an expansive, intergenerational weekend of worship, fellowship, camping, shared meals, and creative joy, building on the beloved Fall Tri-Quarter spirit.
They need our help to make it real! They are seeking individuals and families willing to help host or participate, plus musicians, artists, food organizers, tech support, and energetic sponsors.
How to respond:
Individuals/Families: Reach out to SJQ directly if you feel called to participate.
Meetings: Please share this news during announcements and with your community as led.
Everyone: Consider if you have skills in outreach, planning, or creative arts to offer.
Let’s help them gather the critical mass of support needed to proceed. This is a wonderful opportunity to build vibrant, experimental community spaces across Burlington, Haddonfield, and Salem Quarters.
1. Find Quakers
Find a Quaker community near you.
2. Get ready
Want to know what to expect? Get ready for your first visit.
3. Experience it
Get in touch with your nearest meeting to find out how to connect during social distancing.
Or when it's safe, show up and experience a way of worshiping where we listen to God and each other.
Transcript
Title: Finding Spiritual Refuge
Matthew Sharp of Cherry Hill, NJ
I think my kids really benefit. I think it's a huge gift my wife and I have given them. Meeting gives them a kind of a chance, a practice, of being silent in a world where there's so many distractions, and there's so much data and information. So, the meeting's just kind of like a refuge and a place to be that we don't have to be super brilliant. We don't have to know everything. We can just kind of try to, you know, find that Light inside of us, that God inside of us. And what does that look like? How does that come out?
Title card: How My Family Found Spiritual Refuge in Quaker Meeting
It's a place where you can go and be yourself and find that Light inside yourself. You know that Light when you do something good, when you feel good, when you help others? That thing that comes out and shines.
And we were just attracted to the Meeting because of the service aspect, the social justice, and really, the conversations at Adult First Day School kind of were the things we were concerned about and thinking about as a family.
So, my name is Matthew Sharp, and I live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and I go to Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.
Find your spiritual refuge
If you've been looking for a faith community where you can be fully yourself without creeds getting in the way, maybe you've been looking for Quakers.
Led by the Spirit
Open & Affirming
Centered on Community
Don't go it alone!
You deserve a faith community where you belong.
Be Free
We're a faith community that is refreshingly free in its approach. The most "dogmatic" it gets around these parts is "there is that of God in everyone."
Be Known
Small, close-knit communities give you the opportunity to really get to know others and be known by them. These small communities are connected to form the larger South Jersey Quakers community.
Share Values
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