About
The Daily Quaker Message is an invitation to enter into a closer relationship with Spirit. Daily emails have three parts: a short Quaker message to meditate on (often a quote, but sometimes a song, a poem, a piece of art, or a video), an exercise to try in your own life, and a query. This email is a powerful tool for establishing or enriching a spiritual practice.
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Take a Tour of the Daily Quaker Message
Today’s Date
Your Daily Quaker Message
The message is usually a quote, but can sometimes be a video, a song, a poem, a piece of art, or a photograph. The messages are mostly from Quaker sources, with occasional enrichment from other spiritual traditions.
On Sundays, you are invited to engage with a longer message, which takes under 10 minutes.
— Citation for the message goes here
Today’s Invitation
The invitation takes the ideas from the message and gives you an exercise to try out in your own life that day. This is frequently a writing prompt, so you may wish to keep a journal. Because of the longer message, there is no invitation on Sundays.
Query of the Week
Each Monday, we introduce the week’s query.
On Sundays, we publish reader reflections on the past week’s query. We would love to hear how these queries come alive for you. Share your thoughts here.
This Week’s Messages
This section appears on Sundays to recap any days you may have missed. You can click the images or the “More” link to read the full Message.
The Journey Begins
A Great Discovery
The Air is Filled with Angels
Down Into the Light
The First Step to Peace
Pursuing the Kingdom of God
Our Team
Jon Watts
Jon Watts is a Quaker media creator and spiritual entrepreneur. As a songwriter, Jon toured the world sharing stories of the Early Friends and his own spiritual journey growing up in a Quaker intentional community and attending the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program at Guilford College.
Jon’s unique success promoting his music in the early days of Youtube led him to found the QuakerSpeak project, for which he spent six years traveling, interviewing Friends, and publishing a video every week. In 2021, Jon embarked on a new journey: envisioning a future for Friends and online media.
Jon Watts is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, which holds his ministry under its care.
Maeve Sutherland
Maeve Sutherland is a communications professional who never recovered from her wonderful childhood at a Quaker elementary school. She has spent her career helping nonprofits share their stories, from schools and universities, to museums, to radio stations. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Maeve spent a year living in “Peaceable Kingdoms,” pacifist intentional communities around the world, where she learned that everyone has a role to play in shaping a better world. She worked as a freelance social media manager before joining Thee Quaker Project.
After returning to Quakerism as a young adult, Maeve now attends Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia.
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