Adria (Gulizia) DiCapua is a lawyer, mediator, teacher, and mother. Adria carries a concern for how Friends’ traditional faith and practice translates into an increasingly unstable, atomized, and uncertain world. She is passionate about inviting all into deeper relationship with the Spirit of Christ, which spoke so strongly to early Friends and continues to speak today.

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Adria (Gulizia) DiCapua is a lawyer, mediator, teacher, and mother. Adria carries a concern for how Friends’ traditional faith and practice translates into an increasingly unstable, atomized, and uncertain world. She is passionate about inviting all into deeper relationship with the Spirit of Christ, which spoke so strongly to early Friends and continues to speak today.

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C. Wess Daniels (he/him, friend) is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. The highlight of this work for him is working with undergraduate students, teaching classes like Introduction to Quakerism, The Practice of Silence, and Boredom as a Superpower. Wess’s writings include the book Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance (2019) and a forthcoming Pendle Hill Pamphlet (#500) Liturgies of Imperialism, Liturgies of Resistance. Wess is a recorded Quaker minister and member of First Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC. He is committed to the work of regaining our capacity for deep attention, anti-imperial expressions of Christianity, and the building of liberatory movements that embody love and justice in the world.

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Our Bible Half-Hour presenter at NEYM 2026 Annual Sessions is Adria DiCapua. She is a lawyer, mediator, teacher, and mother. Adria carries a concern for how Friends’ traditional faith and practice translates into an increasingly unstable, atomized, and uncertain world. She is passionate about inviting all into deeper relationship with the Spirit of Christ, which spoke so strongly to early Friends and continues to speak today.

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Our Bible Half-Hour presenter at NEYM 2026 Annual Sessions is Adria DiCapua. She is a lawyer, mediator, teacher, and mother. Adria carries a concern for how Friends’ traditional faith and practice translates into an increasingly unstable, atomized, and uncertain world. She is passionate about inviting all into deeper relationship with the Spirit of Christ, which spoke so strongly to early Friends and continues to speak today.

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Noah Bishop Merrill originally offered this message to the 2023 gathering of the Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas.

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An address given by Noah Bishop Merrill as the 2026 Perkins Family Lecture hosted by the Quaker Leadership Center, a ministry of the Earlham School of Religion, in Richmond, Indiana on April 24, 2026.

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Gretchen Baker-Smith is a member of Westport Friends Meeting in Massachusetts. Her experience of call has led her on a wandering journey of ministry, mostly but not entirely among Friends, nurturing children, teens, adults, those who nurture young people, those in crisis or seeking the Light, local meetings, and anyone open to the spiritual wonder and teaching of bread making.

Her talk was recorded August 3, 2025, at UMass Amherst at the Annual Sessions of New England Yearly Meeting.

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