Nearly 400 years after members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, arrived in America in pursuit of religious freedom, a new immigration policy threatens the ability of the ...

Buying items that are fair trade, organic, locally made or cruelty-free are some of the ways in which consumers today seek to align their economic habits with their spiritual and ethical views. For ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Do Quakers quake? Do Quakers eat Quaker Oats? Are Quakers still around today? These are some of the questions that visitors often ask at the Arch Street Meeting House in Old City ...

PHILADELPHIA -- At the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia's Old City, more and more young people are seeking respite from a clamorous technological age in the silent worship of a centuries-old ...

Needless to say, a lot has changed over the past 300 years. But one thing that has stayed the same: the Matinecock Quaker meeting house, located at 267 Duck Pond Road. The Matinecock Monthly Meeting ...

The Friendswood Historical Society has been collecting donations to erect seven historical markers celebrating Friendswood's Quaker heritage. The markers will be placed outside notable sites of Quaker ...

"Do Quakers quake? Do they eat Quaker Oats? Are they still active today?" These are the questions frequently posed by visitors to Philadelphia's historic Arch Street Meeting House, revealing a ...

Texas is a leader in the number of people who observe organized religion. In sheer numbers, more Texans are members of a church than any state in the Union, and a Pew Research Center study named it ...

(The Conversation) — Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by ...