The Canaanite woman cries out because she has seen what Jesus has done for other people, as the popular meme goes, and she wants that for herself. She believes in the power of his ministry to overcome the ills and evils of this world. What's the lesson here for Friends? quaker.org/2026/08/10/w...

As he read about the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and how Jesus went alone up the mountain to pray after the crowd had gone, Ron Hogan writes, "I started thinking about the early Quakers, and the stories George Fox told in his journals" of Firbank Fell & Pendle Hill. quaker.org/2026/08/03/h...

Jesus never set out to feed 5,000 people at one event. You can see it in the beginning of the story: He was trying to get AWAY from everybody. But as thousands converged on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he couldn't help but be moved by their faith. So he came back. quaker.org/2026/07/27/j...

As we strip away the trappings of Empire, and break through the mental and spiritual fog of this world, the more capable we become of perceiving what early Friends called “the Inward Light" and its invitation to abandon sin and embrace God's call to love one another. quaker.org/2026/07/20/y...

“What has the gospel to do with the oppressed of the land and their struggle for liberation?” Everything. God doesn’t promise that heaven awaits us after a lifetime of suffering *if we’ve behaved ourselves*. God assures us the blessed community will come to THIS world. quaker.org/2026/07/13/w...

Twenty-three years after his death, Empire's viziers still feel compelled to tear Mr. Rogers down in order to justify their failure to love their neighbors. It shouldn't surprise us: Jesus called out this world's ongoing effort to discredit prophetic messengers long ago. quaker.org/2026/06/29/t...

HOW LONG, O LORD? The language of the 13th Psalm might have resonated with the earliest Friends, especially those who had been publicly tortured or thrown into prison—nevertheless, they continued to believe in God's steadfast love. We can learn from their example. quaker.org/2026/06/22/m...

When Spirit breaks through Empire’s illusions, it reconnects us with what Walter Brueggemann called the prophetic imagination—the ability to recognize that something has gone terribly wrong, that we do not have to live like this, that a greater possibility exists. quaker.org/2026/06/15/w...

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.'” The harvest of the blessed community awaits—what will we do to pitch in and bring it home? quaker.org/2026/06/08/t...

The Hebrew word hesed describes a relationship—sometimes between two people, but more often between God and humanity. English words like "loyalty" or "trust" capture some of hesed's complexity, but they miss out on the "steadfast love" at the core of the relationship. quaker.org/2026/06/01/i...

"Patriotism is really difficult because it's about a love of country, and that love of country often comes from a place of being afraid of dissent." In the latest QuakerSpeak.com video, Katie Breslin reflects on the ways that Quaker testimony can become incompatible with nationalist pride.

"Remember," Jesus tells his disciples, at the end of Matthew's gospel, "I am with you always, to the end of the age.” What do Friends today make of that promise? @ronhogan.bsky.social shares his perspective. quaker.org/2026/05/25/i...

"Prophetic imagination isn't about seeing what will happen tomorrow," says Ron Hogan, "but about recognizing what has gone wrong with the world today—and why." The miracle of Pentecost came with a promise that Spirit will help us all access such a transformative mindset. quaker.org/2026/05/18/i...

How do Orson Welles & William Gibson tie in to speculation about the end of this world—and why do we rarely see Quakers messing around with any of that stuff? And why doesn't @ronhogan.bsky.social see current events as "the fiery ordeal that is taking place to test you?" quaker.org/2026/05/11/t...

On April 25, authorities say, a man set out to assassinate the president of the United States. In a "manifesto," the would-be shooter claims it would be un-Christian NOT to commit violence to eliminate a greater evil. Quakers refuse to buy into that logic. Here's why. quaker.org/2026/05/04/d...

In the Season 6 premiere of the Quakers Today podcast, @petersontoscano.bsky.social and co-host Diana Yañez discuss how their "money biographies" have shaped his spiritual lives. Watch the full episode and find our show notes at QuakersToday.org 🎧

"Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, & like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house..." (1 Peter 2:4-5) This week's message reflects on the solidarity that makes blessed community possible. quaker.org/2026/04/27/l...

The earliest Quakers defined themselves by their commitment to return to the "primitive Christianity" of Jesus’s first followers, a community who "had all things in common [and] would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need." quaker.org/2026/04/20/a...

Imagine the despair Jesus’s followers felt in the days following his arrest and crucifixion, @ronhogan.bsky.social suggests. "The sheep of the flock will be scattered," he had warned—and, indeed, some disciples had decided to get out of Jerusalem while they still could. quaker.org/2026/04/13/o...

Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” In this week's "Look to the Light" message, we look at John 20:27 in the original Greek and find something much heavier than "doubt." quaker.org/2026/04/06/d...

While the apostles hid, Mary Magdalene stayed by the empty tomb. Her spiritual mentor had been arrested and made to suffer a gruesome public death. Now, not even his body remained for her to mourn, and two strangers stood in his tomb, asking her why she was crying. quaker.org/2026/03/30/w...

Puritans in Massachusetts viewed the Quakers as so powerful a threat to their colony that they passed a law forbidding Friends within their borders upon pain of death. Mary Dyer kept coming back, "willing to suffer, as her Brethren did," and was publicly executed in 1659. quaker.org/2026/03/23/g...

“Sing and rejoice, ye children of the day and of the light,” George Fox told his fellow Quakers, “for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt.” Feeling helpless in the face of evil is understandable—but it shouldn't be the end of the story. quaker.org/2026/03/16/t...

Instead of accusing trans people of abandoning their “original” nature, we might do better to see their rejection of socially imposed gender identities, based solely on the presence of physical characteristics, as a recognition—and an embrace—of their authentic selves. quaker.org/2026/03/09/w...

When people become convinced God has abandoned them, they usually decide they need to fend for themselves—and “fending for ourselves” always implies “screw the rest of you.” Walter Brueggemann called that “the royal consciousness,” the animating spirit of Empire. quaker.org/2026/03/02/a...

"For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ," Paul warned in his letter to the Philippians. "Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things." quaker.org/2026/02/23/e...

Embracing empathy reflects the highest of Quakerly aspirations—to accept the summons of the Inward Light to pattern our minds after that of Jesus, “to do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, looking not to your own interests but to the interests of others.” quaker.org/2026/02/16/w...

Dallas Willard didn't see our relationship with God as that of master & servant, nor patron & beneficiary: “A mere benefactor, however powerful, kind, and thoughtful, is not the same thing as a friend," he wrote, "[and] Jesus says, ‘I have called you friends.’” quaker.org/2026/02/09/n...

"We can’t build the blessed community with thoughts and prayers," Ron Hogan writes. "God wants more from us than just our love and attention; God also wants us to love our neighbors as ourselves—and expects us to put some backbone into it." quaker.org/2026/02/02/t...

Every "low and despised" person rejected by the elites has that of God in them. Every outcast has a home in the blessed community. And when they come together in love and solidarity, it can be, as George Fox urged us to be, "a terror to all the adversaries of God." quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...