Submit: HERE We're publishing a book! Constellation of Witness is a new collection of testimonies about public ministry by Quaker public ministers, fully illustrated by Joey Hartmann-Dow. Co-edited by Windy Cooler, Tom Hamm, and nova sturrup, this book seeks to tell the stories of public ministers together as a community, and to explore the ministries Quaker communities are called to together. With your help we just successfully raised over $10,000 to support the real cost of

Friends, it has been a season. A full, overflowing, surprising, sometimes overwhelming season and here we are, sprouting from the mud. nova sturrup and Ann Jerome tenderly, wisely lead our fellows cohort, April 2026, Pendle Hill. We have been too busy making things to stop and tell you about all of them in the last two months. This post is our attempt to remedy that and to review some of our posts since the last time we posted a review post in the fall. In this blog entry you

Religious education has always been public ministry. Following Pentecost, Jesus’s disciples became apostles, students became teachers — the foremost religious educators of the early church. 17th century Friends traveled in the ministry sharing an emergent faith and developing practices. The 19th century invention of “First Day School” moved formation outside the home and family and placed religious education in the public community of the meeting. If Quaker public ministry is

Mary Crauderueff is the Curator of Quaker Collections in Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. She’s an archivist, a teacher, and a fierce advocate for access. She doesn’t just preserve Quaker history in the basement of the library. She helps people meet it. The beautiful parts. The damning parts. The parts we quote at each other like scripture. And the parts we try to slide past, hoping nobody notices. Public ministers from left to right: Christy Randazzo, Windy C

The Friends Incubator for Public Ministry is grateful to announce our first cohort of Fellows! This cohort represents a shared commitment to reclaiming public ministry as a communal practice rooted in worship, sustained by relationship, and accountable to the body. It includes the participation of five-yearly meetings on the East Coast of the United States. Baltimore, New England, New York, Philadelphia and Southeastern Yearly Meetings are represented in this cohort of fello