CHICO — Once a month, Paul Harris drives three hours from Santa Rosa to attend the Chico Quaker Meeting. While there is a Quaker meeting where he lives, the Chico one is better, he said. “The Santa ...

The New Bedford Friends Meeting house, where those known as Quakers get together to worship, was recently spruced up. Members of the Quaker religion get together twice a week to sit in silence or ...

I didn’t expect to experience this lesson so clearly the first time I visited a Quaker meeting. About 30 minutes into the shared silence—the community gathered in a circle, each person listening ...

The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, began in England during the 1600s through the ministry of George Fox. "Quakers believed that all people could develop a personal ...