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British Quaker YouTube channel discussing Quaker Faith, History and Culture in the UK http://www.youtube.com/@Quake-It-Up Episodes now also coming on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/73TbZBKt2thIU6YyUDvq0e?si=vJrW9uHwTluR7bYUqG8-Fg

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Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · Feb 21

MASSIVE news! Quake It Up is now (slowly but surely) on Spotify! Eventually, all episodes will be on and I hope to continue to upload episodes to both platforms going forward!

If you would like to subscribe and listen, here is the link!

open.spotify.com/show/73TbZBK...

Podcast · Quake It Up · A podcast discussing Quakerism through its theology history and culture today. Whilst focussing mainly on Liberal Quakerism in the UK, we delve into all sorts as well! You can...

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Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 4d

📣 New Video! I take on objections against Quakerism head on. What do you think is the best objection you’ve heard?

#quakers #quakerism #britishquakers

The Best 5 Objections to Quakerism - And Honest Responses.
youtu.be/Lye1zuknjOE

The Best 5 Objections to Quakerism - And Honest Responses.

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Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 7d

🎃 👻

Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 8d

On #Halloween night I'm offering a session exploring #Quaker attitudes to the supernatural, then and now. You can sign up here. 🎃

Quakers and the Supernatural - Woodbrooke

The Liberal theologian Rudolf Bultmann once observed: ‘We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern

www.woodbrooke.org.uk

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 8d

On the wish list!!

History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Think Quakers = porridge & pacifism? 🥣✋ Think again. @ericanela.bsky.social takes us through the dramatic, law-breaking, miracle-attempting origins of Quakerism.

🎧 pod.fo/e/333c3b
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 9d

Who? The atheist Friends? I give a couple of reasons in the video. Community without judgement, a space to grow, a place to be challenged, a place to meet principled people to be just a few!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Tim! What did the other person say to that? I find that, once they get over the concept of no physical sacraments, even more liturgically minded people agree with at least most of what we are saying…

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks, Tim! It’s another way of avoiding the “Quakers don’t do this” mindset.

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 11d

📣 New video! For people with ADHD and ADHD traits, the idea of a Quaker silent worship might sound impossible. However, I show why this is not the case!

youtu.be/ZA5yQvZ7heo

#quakers #quaker #quakerism #adhd #inclusion #diversity

Split screen - left a cartoon display of a hyperactive mind and right wooden benches in a calm room. Middle, Ollie smiling. Text reads ADHD meets Silence

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 11d

Oh no! Thanos strikes again!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 11d

YES!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 12d

Lol wir unterrichten es auch hier in Großbritannien… musste es selbst lesen als ich 17 war… ein echter internationaler Übergangsritus!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 12d

The High Quaker Pedagogic Synod assembles!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 18d

😝 Dropping Matthew 3:11 like it’s no one’s business!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 18d

📣 New video! People often say that Quakers don’t baptise and don’t do communion. That’s not strictly true. Let me tell you why!

youtu.be/UXIfVGpR_2Q

#quakers #quaker #quakerism #sacraments #theology

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Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 23d

Getting ready for today's session of "Wisdom From Middle Earth". Tonight I look at conceptions of goodness in Tolkien. I suspect @footnotes2plato.substack.com will approve of the focus. #Process #Theology

A laptop screen showing an image of Alfred North Whitehead and some surrounding course text.

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 23d

🤩 Translated a lot from Hávamál and Þrymskviða at uni - buckle in, Wood!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 25d

📣 New video! I was shocked when I first started going to Quaker meeting that SO many of them were either vegan or veggie. In this video, I discuss why!

#quaker #quakers #quakerism #britishquakers #vegan #veggie

Background of vegetables. Ollie to the right. Text on left reads ‘Faith and Food’

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Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social · Aug 26

#Quakers have always called each other 'Friend.' Is this a quaint relic from our past, or a site of rich theological reflection? Join me for an exciting online course, building a theology of Friendship inspired by Black feminist thought. www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/whos... @woodbrooke.bsky.social

Whose Friends Are We? - Woodbrooke

This course will approach a theology of Friendship from a number of angles. These include the Biblical roots of the term friend, and how Christians have

www.woodbrooke.org.uk

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks!!

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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · Sep 8

Season Five premieres Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Quakers and Action: How Do We Balance Peace and Protest?

Now with 100% more video!

Quakers Today is available wherever you get podcasts or at quakerstoday.org @friendsjournal.org

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · Sep 9

100%?? 🤯 Can we handle it??

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · Sep 9

Season 6 of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, is launching this week! Tune in wherever you get your podcasts for a new episode this Friday!

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · Sep 8

That moment when you’re trying to give a generic overview of Quaker belief - but you’re a Christian Quaker and end up accidentally talking about the Ascension of Jesus in the first few minutes 🤦‍♂️

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · May 9

Very pleased to offer a course on lectio divina @woodbrooke.bsky.social coming up soon. The text recounts Rufus Jones’ compelling experience of embodied spirituality—join me in a
#healing time together
#embodiment
#Quakers

Picture of the text for the course from the Woodbrooke website

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · Sep 6

📣 New video!
It’s often said that Quaker belief is really hard to explain, even amongst Quakers. Watch me try and prove the contrary!

#quakers #quaker #quakerism #britishquakers

Ollie in foreground looking pensive, Quaker meeting in the background. Text reads ‘What Quakers Believe’

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · Sep 6

I know! 😱