Abstract
This research note explores the practices of a unique Quaker organisation, Beacon Hill Friends House, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which offers an intentional living community, public programming, and a community hospitality programme. This paper explores the ways that Quaker values are embedded in this diverse community and organisation as the foundation upon which its members and the organisation engage in witness and action. It offers three grounding principles for life and action emanating from its programme: openness to transformation, holding multiplicity, and self-reflection. It ends by offering queries for how Friends can use these principles more broadly.
Keywords
Community, transformation, revelation, difference, diversity, social responsibility, community, transformation, revelation, difference, diversity, social responsibility
How to Cite
Newman, J., (2025) “ Openness to transformation and connection: How Quakerism shows up in life and action at Beacon Hill Friends House ”, Quaker Studies 30(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/qs.18745