"Everyone in the meeting is different [and] our differences bring a different perspective of faith," Greg Woods says. "But... if we aren’t ready to talk about the diversity of those that are gathered, we can’t fully understand the beloved community." quakerspeak.com/video/spiritua…

"Prayer is my life," Lynette Davis tells us, and she means it—in addition to being a Quaker, she's also a member of an ecumenical community of women who have taken religious vows, and joins other sisters in formalized prayers several times a day. quakerspeak.com/video/7-quaker…

In 2016, Rachel Madenyika went to the Friends World Plenary and talked to Quakers from around the world about environmental sustainability. "Sustainability is not only a North American issue," she said in this interview. "I think it is a global issue." quakerspeak.com/video/quakers-…

Cherice Bock recently spoke with us about the programmed worship at North Valley Friends Church, and their inclusion of song in worship services: "Music allows us to express different feelings. It's a way to express those feelings together as a community." quakerspeak.com/video/how-do-p…

Pradip Lamichhane, a member of Bhaktapur Evangelical Friends Church in Nepal, recently told us about his prayer life. “Every morning, I wake up, I say, ‘Thank you, God, that’s all!' Before going to bed: ‘Oh, thank you, God, very much, how lovely you are.'” quakerspeak.com/video/the-quak…

"At Friends schools, the majority of people in the room are not Quaker… So what we’re doing is we’re having a conversation that is possible because of the Quaker ethos of acceptance, tolerance, universality, and openness to the unknown." quakerspeak.com/video/teaching…

"We know when someone is being really true and authentic," says singer-songwriter @CarrieNewcomer. "When someone puts their finger on the open palm of something true, it shakes the world just a little bit.… Why would I want to be any other way?" quakerspeak.com/video/the-tran…

What can Friends do to prevent another coup attempt after this year's election? “People’s reaction to an attack... will be, very often, violent unless they know something better,” George told us in 2020. “Happily, Quakers & others know something better!" quakerspeak.com/video/democrac…

Paula Christophersen recalls how, when she first walked into a Quaker meeting as a "spiritual but not religious" person just over half a decade ago, "It almost felt as if... this faith I was discovering fell cleanly through my head and into my heart." quakerspeak.com/video/my-first…

“The Torah says: Choose Life. What will you choose, life or death?" Earlier this year, an anonymous Jewish Friend shared her concerns about the violence in Gaza with QuakerSpeak. quakerspeak.com/video/a-jewish…

Horrified by the violence he saw being perpetrated against enslaved people in early 18th-century Barbados—and equally horrified by the participation of Quakers in that violence—Benjamin Lay arrived in colonial Philadelphia a fervent abolitionist. quakerspeak.com/video/benjamin…

Why would Quakers participate in the seizure and forced assimilation of generations of Indigenous youth? "They were blinded by white supremacy," Paula Palmer told us last year. "They were blinded by their certainty that their way of life was superior." quakerspeak.com/video/the-last…

"We feel it in our hearts, we feel it in our bones,” says Alicia Mendonca-Richards. “We feel the sadness of the way that we are living and the destruction we are causing and we know that this can’t be the best way to live.” quakerspeak.com/video/how-quak…

“The project [of] rescuing Christianity from the ways it’s been used to pillage and exploit seems like really important work to me, because the original teachings of Jesus are all about wealth redistribution and fighting greed and uplifting the poor." quakerspeak.com/video/liberati…

Many Friends have struggled to articulate a clear response to the relentless violence against Palestinians after Hamas attacked Israel. Steve Chase describes his personal journey from instinctive support of Israel to a recognition of the Palestinian cause. quakerspeak.com/video/moving-c…

"[Quakers] are politically insignificant in so many ways—but... we’re being as faithful as we can be to the truth that’s being revealed to us, and we’re trusting that if we follow that through, that that will speak in others as well." quakerspeak.com/video/quaker-v…

"Worshiping with others and acknolwedging their presence, the God in them, is so important to me," Daquanna Harrison told us. "Meeting for worship is the intentional opening of a portal—a portal of knowledge, of love, of discernment." quakerspeak.com/video/what-is-…

"As we consider the peace testimony it’s not enough to say, 'Oh, well, George Fox said this and Barclay said that,'" Adria Gulizia told us. "The question as it was in Fox’s time is: what canst thou say?" quakerspeak.com/video/peace/

"Sometimes sitting in worship can be excruciatingly uncomfortable," Mary Linda McKinney confided in 2021, "[but] I do want to live my life letting God’s will flow through me and I want to do that in community with others." quakerspeak.com/video/good-qua…