William Penn
5 articles
GwenWilliam Penn, Quaker Founder, Marked 300 Years After Death as Reformer and Slaveholder
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the death of William Penn, the Quaker philosopher and real estate entrepreneur whose image appears on the Quaker Oats container. According...
William Penn, Quaker who proposed a European parliament in 1693, remembered
William Penn, an English Quaker of the seventeenth century, is the subject of a feature by The Europeanist that presents him as an early European federalist thinker whose...
Essay Revisits Quaker-Led Pennsylvania’s Government, Pacifism and Treatment of Native Americans
John Shelton’s essay for Plough, published May 16, 2025, asks whether a government can be pacifist by examining colonial Pennsylvania, which was founded on Quaker principles. The essay...
Krefeld, Germany, Has One Quaker Again as Olaf Radicke Leads Silent Worship in Mennonite Church
Olaf Radicke is Krefeld’s only Quaker, and he has brought a small church back to a city that once played a notable role in the movement’s history. Quakers...
