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Quakers as a Shared Culture and Epistemology

Posted on May 5, 2024May 5, 2024 by

I have long ruminated about the challenge of living in a digital society where we no longer seem to have a common culture that roots us. It feels like, in generations past, Americans had a more universal experience where we did the same things (e.g. bowling) and consumed the same media (the Bible, the three…

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The Public Universal Friend — a non-binary, Quaker-raised evangelist from the 1700s

Posted on November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 by

I’ve been a Quaker for 26 years and only now learned about the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal Friend is hard to describe. They are considered by some to be the first transgender evangelist, by others the first American-born woman to lead a religious movement, by others a controversal non-binary preacher during the Revolutionary…

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Hosting a Quaker Meeting for Worship

Posted on April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 by

This weekend I did something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time: hosted a silent Quaker Meeting for Worship in my home for my non-Quaker friends. It was a small group of just five of us, which was the right number because I would have been nervous hosting a larger gathering. Also…

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Pandemic Changes: Going Back to Quaker Church

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 by

I was pleased I got to share on KQED’s Bay Curious blog in March a bit of how the pandemic has changed my life: getting back to my Quaker roots. Here’s what I shared: My name is Rik Panganiban and I work for KQED education. Like a lot of people, everything changed in the pandemic,…

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What to Expect at a Virtual Quaker Meeting

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 by

I’ve been attending a virtual Quaker Meeting for Worship (what we call our services) for about a year. For those interested in experiencing this unique form of religious gathering, there is no better time, with hundreds of them happening each week. My home church, the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, holds…

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Virtual Quaker Meeting: Windows into Each Other’s Homes

Posted on May 3, 2020May 4, 2020 by

Today was the first time in years that I have given a message at Quaker Meeting for Worship. It was during Brooklyn Monthly Meeting’s virtual meeting, which I have been to a few times since the pandemic. Here’s what I shared: Friends, I have been thinking about this new structure for our Meeting. I think…

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Dwarf Quaker Slavery-fighting Activist Benjamin Lay is My New Hero

Posted on August 20, 2017February 13, 2019 by

The New York Times has an inspired write up about Quaker activist Benjamin Lay, “You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf.”  It really speaks to my condition, as Friends say: “Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, was the world’s first revolutionary abolitionist. Against the common sense of the day, when slavery…

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Message to President-elect Trump from New York Quakers: Reject Hatred and Bigotry

Posted on December 2, 2016 by

Here is the message that was communicated from New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to President-elect Donald Trump a few days ago. Although I have not attended Quaker Meeting for a very long time, I am still formally a member of the New York Yearly Meeting and the Brooklyn Monthly…

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“What Does George Fox Say?”: Awesome Parody / Primer on Quakers (video)

Posted on January 6, 2014 by

  This video has all of the awesome: Spot on parody of the already excellent "The Fox" music video Interesting content about the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and our founder, George Fox Great production values, from music to cinematography, for a volunteer production Hilarious Quaker references: giving vocal ministry, the bonnets and hats, sitting…

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Visiting the Berkeley Friends Church and Christ-loving Quakers

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

Today I went to my first "programmed" Quaker Meeting for Worship, at the Berkeley Friends Church. There are many strains of Quakerism, only some fraction of which I am familiar with. One of the largest divisions among Quakers are between the "programmed" and "unprogrammed" Meetings for Worship.  "Programmed" for Quakers refers to the kind of…

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