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Over the past several months, as we have walked with Tom Hamm on the blog through the long, uneven landscape of Quaker public ministry, something surprising has taken shape. Taken together, these ministers George Fox , Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader , John Woolman , Lucretia Mott , Joseph Hoag , Elias Hicks , Joseph John Gurney , J ohn Wilbur , and David B Updegraff do not simply offer a string of biographies. They create a living field of tension and possibility, a kind of spiritual map for...

Tom Hamm’s Thanksgiving Series on Public Ministers, Part Four of Four… well, let’s just say we are getting there in our own good time. If Monday’s post left you both grateful and slightly overwhelmed by the 19th-century Quaker world... Today Tom introduces us to David B. Updegraff (1830–1894), the man who helped turn one of the new branches of American Quakerism inside out again. Updegraff’s story is fiery, dramatic, and almost unbelievable to Friends formed in the quiet rhythm of waiting...

Tom Hamm’s Thanksgiving Series on Public Ministers (Part 3… and yes, we promise Part 4 is coming) Remember back at Thanksgiving when we boldly announced a four-part series on nineteenth-century public ministers? And then we only managed to publish two? Well, Friends, welcome to the other half. Consider this our late-season act of faithfulness. Ministry happens on its own timetable, after all. We are indebted to the Quaker Faith and Podcast for this chart, which can be found: HERE Today we...