The Friends Center board of directors has started a search for our next executive director. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share with folks who have relevant experience. Thanks to our equity partner @afsc-org.bsky.social for supporting the search! Full posting:

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AP story on young adults showing up to Quaker worship at Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia! We've seen this here, at Central Philadelphia Friends Meeting, and in other nearby meetings, too.

Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world

There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia.

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"Recent years have produced an unprecedented surge in the number of attendees at Sunday worship — from about 25 before the coronavirus pandemic to up to 100 today." Good to see. Arch Street was where I was when I decided to become a Quaker member. www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...

Our executive director since 2015, Chris Mohr, will leave Friends Center staff as of 10/31/2025, to become General Secretary of @quakerspym.bsky.social, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers). (1/2)

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting@quakerspym.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Mohr as the new General Secretary of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, starting November 8th! Learn more about Chris at www.pym.org/new-philadel...

Join Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration w/ our next training on Sun. 11/23 2-5 pm, led by @eqat.bsky.social: Building Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Action Deepen your understanding & sharpen your skills! Quakers & non-Quakers welcome. Refreshments & childcare provided.

The next training in our 50th anniversary series is "Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Direct Action." Join trainers from @eqat.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23, 2-5 pm, here at Friends Center! Open to all, Quakers & non-Quakers alike! Details & registration here:

Join Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration w/ our next training on Sun. 11/23 2-5 pm, led by @eqat.bsky.social: Building Skills for Spiritually Grounded Nonviolent Action Deepen your understanding & sharpen your skills! Quakers & non-Quakers welcome. Refreshments & childcare provided.

Coming up Sunday 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How faith communities can support immigrants. Part of Friends Center's 50th anniversary series of trainings on nonviolent action. Held here in Center City Philadelphia. Refreshments and child care provided. For Quakers and non-Quakers alike! Sign up here:

Registration is open for the next workshop in Friends Center's series to celebrate our 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Here with @quakerspym.bsky.social next Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants

World Quaker Day is this Sunday! (Or, as earlier generations of Friends called it, and some still do today, this First Day.)

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This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'. Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times! You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

FCNL’s Stephen Donahoe reflects on finding hope, even in the worst places: “I am taking this reminder to seek out and cultivate resilience. I am taking this reminder to continue planting seeds, even in the rockiest soil.”

Finding resilience, even in the worst places | Friends Committee On National Legislation

Recently I was traveling in Berlin for a long weekend with friends; I woke up in the morning of my last day convinced that I needed to visit Sachsenhausen, a nearby concentration camp. Throughout an o...

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You can register here for our October 12th workshop on how faith communities can support immigrants. Open to Quakers non-Quakers alike!

New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

New banners just dropped! 2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

At Stenton Museum in Philly, 9/30/25: "Wrestling with Justice" will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery & create an interpretive framework, programming, & exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved & free people at Stenton, & evolving 18th-C. Quaker attitudes re enslavement.

Wrestling With Justice - Taking It To The Streets

WRESTLING WITH JUSTICE will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery and create an interpretive framework, programming, and exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved and free peopl...

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We continue our 50th anniversary training series Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm, with @quakerspym.bsky.social & New Sanctuary Movement of Philly. How faith communities can support immigrant justice, with updates on what’s happening on the ground & how to stand in solidarity. Open to all. Register here:

This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'. Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times! You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

The Quaker Approach to the Bible

YouTube video by QuakerSpeak

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Thanks to Lewis Webb of @afsc-org.bsky.social & Tonya McClary for leading our 1st training in Friends Center's series celebrating our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly. Next: @quakerspym.bsky.social on how faith communities can support immigrants, here on 10/12/25, 3-5 pm.

"We believe that career development, spiritual and faith practice, and mental health are key to long-term peace and community empowerment," says Joyeuse Senga, co-founder and executive director of Friends Career Center, which serves the needs of young people in Rwanda and Canada.

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.

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Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Friends Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a series of trainings on nonviolent action. First up: Community Safety Beyond Policing, with @afsc-org.bsky.social. Please share the flyer: friendscentercorp.org/wp-content/u...

Friends Center, Philadelphia@friendsctr.bsky.social · last yr.

Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.

How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities? Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community. Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:

You can always ask me: intergenerational conversations about faith

Extract of an intergenerational conversation about Quaker faith

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Countdown is on! Our PFAS webinar is just days away. Learn how “forever chemicals” impact obesity, infertility, cancer, and more — and what we can do to protect public health. Featuring Megan Wolff, PhD, MPH. Reserve your spot today: buff.ly/wanQdyW

This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home. If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.

Friends Center, Philadelphia@friendsctr.bsky.social · last yr.

Friends Center's nonprofit office tenants include both Quaker and non-Quaker organizations. All have missions that align with Quaker values and testimonies in Philadelphia and beyond. Today we start a thread highlighting them! (1/~30)

We have new @afsc-org.bsky.social banners to share with you all: "Quaker Communities are stronger with immigrants" 1/2

Friends Center, Philadelphia@friendsctr.bsky.social · last yr.

New Quaker banners just dropped: @afsc-org.bsky.social supersized their yard signs! (1/2)

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition by Dutch colonists in protest of religious intolerance in the New Netherland colony that targeted religious minorities and including Quakers. None of the signers were Friends but they resisted their government in pursuit of religious tolerance. (1/2)

And just like that, the @afsc-org.bsky.social historical marker is back and looking better than ever. It notes AFSC as co-recipient of 1947 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Quakers. Thank you, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission!

Friends Center, Philadelphia@friendsctr.bsky.social · last yr.

On closer inspection, a tag from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission says the AFSC sign is down for maintenance. Whew! On the right is the actual sign. 2/2

Friends Center's office building opened in 1975--50 years ago! This fall, we'll celebrate our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia with a series of in-person trainings on nonviolent action. Some details remain to be worked out. Here's the overview.

Why are Quakers always at protests? 🪧 From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, Rhiannon Grant takes a look at why it's quite common to see Quakers marching with a banner. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/why-are...

Why are Quakers always at protests?

From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, Rhiannon Grant takes a look at why it's not uncommon to see Quakers marching with a banner.

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