Quaker Signs and Billboards

Click Rik: OMG Quaker Advertising! Brooklyn Quakers boldly put up a big sign

"While other faiths put up large billboards on busy streets, accost you in the subway station, and put up flashy multimedia websites, Quakers seek to be known for our deeds not our catchy slogans. It's one of the things tha. love about bein. Friend. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-03-23T02:18:13Z.)

Chuck Fager's compares meetinghouse signs

"Quakers?. thought they all died out." Such confusion is embarrassing, but all too understandable, in view of the fact that so many meetings are all but invisible, even in their own communities. How bad does it get? (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-21T13:40:34Z.)

2006 Quaker billboard along Philadelphia highway

"Peace is Possible," it says. [The location] is probably known best by those who listen to the traffic reports a. place where traffic often backs up. So for two weeks, people stuck in traffic get to meditate on the metaphysics of peace. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-21T13:34:11Z.)

Ironic & iconic outreach posters from Olympic View Friends Church, Washington USA

Pop culture mashups, many re-purposing images from the 1950s. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-21T13:30:07Z.)

Johan M: what do church signboards tell the visitor?

At some point, the meetinghouse sign came up. Several of us confessed our dissatisfaction at what it says. said that wha. really want on our sign is simply this: "We gather here every Sunday at 10:30 to meet with God. Please join us." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-21T13:19:20Z.)

Billboard: Gandhi quote from Friends in Delaware USA

An anonymous donor paid for this billboard in Laurel, Delaware, fo. full year starting last July. It's visible from southbound Route 13 on the left side of the highway. The Southern Quarter website ha. supporting peace page. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-21T13:09:21Z.)

Johan M on the signs outside our churches and meetings

Our signs often serve as filters rather than invitations. The worst kind of filters are those with unintended messages, or perhaps those signs whose messages are formed by our anxieties rather than our best hearts and hopes. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-18T11:25:02Z.)