#quakers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quakers, aggregated by home.social.
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Friends across the Nordics are warmly invited to join the Daily Hybrid Morning Meetings for Worship during the FWCC-Europe & Middle East Section All Age Gathering in #Altenberg , Germany.
These short online meetings offer a way to share in the gathering for those who are unable to travel there.
🕊️ 9–14 August
🕰️ Every morning, 09:30 CEST
⏳ 20 minutes
📍 Online / hybridRegistrations:
https://us.list-manage.com/2jsaqq5KdoB?e=ea39001473&c2id=49880c828df4c873cbc076868f0901f1#Quakers #FriendsWorldCommittee #SilentWorship #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.This Sunday, Friends will gather for worship in Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Meetings are taking place in Stockholm, Linköping, Svenstavik, Oslo, Stavanger, and Helsinki.
See the individual country posts for times, locations, and contact details.
#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.This Sunday, Friends will gather for worship in Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Meetings are taking place in Stockholm, Linköping, Svenstavik, Oslo, Stavanger, and Helsinki.
See the individual country posts for times, locations, and contact details.
#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Many Quaker meetings in the Nordics are fairly small. There are no sermons, no priests, and no real programme to follow.
People gather, sit in silence, listen, and sometimes speak when something feels ready to be shared.
Community grows through this repeated practice of being present with one another.
What helps you feel part of a community?
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.Tomorrow:
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍 More information: kvakare.se/events🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki🕊️ Copenhagen
🕰️ 10:00-12:00
📍 Drejervej 15, 4th floor, 2400 København NV#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Integrity is often spoken about as if it were a fixed personal quality.
In daily life, it may be more like a practice.
We notice when our words, choices, work, habits, and relationships begin to drift apart. Then we ask what needs to come back into alignment.
For Quakers, integrity is closely connected with silence, attention, and conscience.
What helps you notice when something in your life has moved out of alignment?
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.This Sunday:
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍 More information: https://www.kvakare.se/event/andakt-svenstavik-9/🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Stavanger
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Sandvigå 7, 4007 Stavanger🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Quaker simplicity is not about having less for its own sake.
It is about making space for truth, care, and clearer attention.
A simpler life can still be a demanding one.
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.Join us this Sunday:
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍https://www.kvakare.se/event/andakt-svenstavik-9/🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki🕊️ Copenhagen
🕰️ 10:00-11:00
📍 Drejervej 15, 4th floor, 2400 København NV#Quakers #SilentWorship #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stillness
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No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.Join us this Sunday:
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍https://www.kvakare.se/event/andakt-svenstavik-9/🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki🕊️ Copenhagen
🕰️ 10:00-11:00
📍 Drejervej 15, 4th floor, 2400 København NV#Quakers #SilentWorship #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stillness
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Stockholm or Svenstavik.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍 Details: https://www.kvakare.se/event/andakt-svenstavik-10/#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Sweden #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stockholm #Svenstavik #Jamtland
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Modern life pulls our attention in many directions. Messages, headlines, feeds, and demands all compete for the same space.
Quaker practice offers a different rhythm.
Sit still for a while. Notice what is present. Listen before reaching for a response.
What we give attention to shapes how we live.
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Copenhagen.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Copenhagen
🕰️ 10:00
📍 Drejervej 15, Nørrebro#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Denmark #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Copenhagen
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Copenhagen.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Copenhagen
🕰️ 10:00
📍 Drejervej 15, Nørrebro#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Denmark #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Copenhagen
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Stockholm or Svenstavik.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Svenstavik, Jämtland
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍 Details: https://www.kvakare.se/event/andakt-svenstavik-9/#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Sweden #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stockholm #Svenstavik #Jamtland
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Stockholm, Oslo, or Helsinki.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Stockholm, Oslo, or Helsinki.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo🕊️ Helsinki
🕰️ 12:00–13:00
📍 Kamppi Chapel, Simonkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Conscience can be uncomfortable.
It may ask us to pause when others rush ahead.
It may ask us to speak when silence would be easier.
For Quakers, conscience is shaped through stillness, listening, and community. It is not only a private feeling. It is something we test in how we live.
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A new issue of VänNytt has been published.
This issue includes news from Quaker groups around Sweden, upcoming activities, online worship opportunities, retreats, peace work, and community events.
You can download the PDF here:
https://www.kvakare.se/vannytt/ -
Being present sounds simple.
In practice, it can be surprisingly difficult.
Our attention is often pulled towards what happened yesterday or what might happen next.
Quaker worship invites us to begin where we are, rather than where we wish we were.
Sometimes that is enough.
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RE: https://aus.social/@kate/116732744511240931
What a powerful statement on #Transgender rights from the #British #Quakers !
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RE: https://aus.social/@kate/116732744511240931
What a powerful statement on #Transgender rights from the #British #Quakers !
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RE: https://aus.social/@kate/116732744511240931
The more I learn about #Quakers, the more I have come to respect them. 👍
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RE: https://aus.social/@kate/116732744511240931
The more I learn about #Quakers, the more I have come to respect them. 👍
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Interested in experiencing a Quaker meeting?
You're welcome to join us in Stockholm or Stigtomta this Sunday.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm🕊️ Stigtomta
🕰️ 18:00–19:00
📍 Hallavägen 1, 611 72 Stigtomta#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Sweden #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stockholm #Stigtomta
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In 1945, thousands of German refugee children were living in camps in Denmark.
Danes had spent years under German occupation. Helping those refugees was not a popular position to take.
Quakers such as Elise Thomsen chose to help anyway - a reminder that compassion is often easiest in principle and hardest in practice.
David Rovics wrote a song about Elise Thomsen's work in post-war Denmark:
https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/denmark-1945-680
#Quakers #History #Denmark #Refugees #FriendsOnTheFediverse #DavidRovics
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In 1945, thousands of German refugee children were living in camps in Denmark.
Danes had spent years under German occupation. Helping those refugees was not a popular position to take.
Quakers such as Elise Thomsen chose to help anyway - a reminder that compassion is often easiest in principle and hardest in practice.
David Rovics wrote a song about Elise Thomsen's work in post-war Denmark:
https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/denmark-1945-680
#Quakers #History #Denmark #Refugees #FriendsOnTheFediverse #DavidRovics
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How was your meeting for worship?
Feel free to share a reflection.
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Hur var din andaktsstund?
Dela gärna några tankar.
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Hvordan var din andaktsstund?
Del gjerne noen tanker.
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Hvordan var din andagtsstund?
Del gerne nogle tanker.#Quakers #MeetingForWorship #Silence #Reflection #Faith #Kvakare #Kvekere #Andakt #QuakerPractise #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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How was your meeting for worship?
Feel free to share a reflection.
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Hur var din andaktsstund?
Dela gärna några tankar.
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Hvordan var din andaktsstund?
Del gjerne noen tanker.
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Hvordan var din andagtsstund?
Del gerne nogle tanker.#Quakers #MeetingForWorship #Silence #Reflection #Faith #Kvakare #Kvekere #Andakt #QuakerPractise #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Curious about Quakers?
This Sunday, you can join a Meeting for Worship in Lund or Linköping.
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.Just come and sit.
🕊️ Lund
🕰️ 14:00–15:00
📍 Liberiet, Kungsgatan 5, 223 50 Lund🕊️ Linköping
🕰️ 14:00–15:00
📍 Föreningshuset Fontänen, Västra Vägen 32, 582 28 Linköping#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Sweden #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Linköping #Lund
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Modern society tends to imagine only two ways of organising human life: control or chaos.
What interested me while writing this piece is how both Quakerism and anarchism push against that binary in surprisingly similar ways.
New article: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/
#Anarchism #Quakers #Politics #Philosophy #Community #Participation #MutualAid #Consensus #SocialTheory
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Working through Pope Leo's encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. About halfway through it and really enjoying it so far and learning a ton about Catholic Social Doctrine.
The goal is to finish & write a theological response Quaker Religious Thought for June.
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Historically, even modest challenges to hierarchy have often been treated as dangerous ideas.
My latest post explores the overlap between anarchism and Quakerism beyond the stereotypes: consensus, participation, conscience, mutual aid, and distrust of concentrated power.
New post: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/
#Anarchism #Quakers #Consensus #Grassroots #SocialJustice #PoliticalThought #MutualAid #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Attention is becoming harder to hold.
Most of us move through the day reacting. Messages arrive, feeds refresh, and something is always demanding focus.
Quaker practice creates space to pause and listen carefully. That can mean listening to other people, to ourselves, or simply sitting quietly for a while without needing to fill the silence.
Sometimes clarity comes from giving something more time before responding.
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#Quakers Friends Fiduciary has a new job opportunity:
The Shareholder Advocate works w/ the ED and other staff to coordinate our impactful shareholder engagement and policy advocacy work; conduct ongoing analysis of critical social and environmental issues…
more:
https://friendsfiduciary.org/about-us/staff/work-opportunities/
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House and garden #Pickering #quakers #QuakerMeetingHouse #garden
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I've meant for some time to properly check out #Quakers, the Society of Friends. Now a post I read has nudged me into it.
Now I'd like to find Quakers I can learn more from. Just interest — I'm already happy with God, and my relationship with Her. Are there any Friends here?
