PHILADELPHIA — At the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia’s Old City, more and more young people are seeking respite from a clamorous technological age in the silent worship of a centuries-old faith.

Like other Quaker houses of worship, it follows values of simplicity and equality. There’s no clergy, pulpit or altar. No statues of saints, no stained-glass windows. No one sings or chants, burns incense or lights candles. They simply sit in silence in 200-year-old wooden pews — and wait for a message from God to move through them until they speak. kAm“%9:D 766=D 5:776C6?E :? E92E :E’D D@ D:>A=6] xE’D D6E FA :? 2 H2J E92E >2<6D J@F 766= =:<6 J@FC :?E6C?2= H@C=5 … :D 6BF2==J 2D :>A@CE2?E 2D E96 DA246 E92E J@F’C6 :?[” D2JD '2=6C:6 v@@5>2?[ 2 A:?<\92:C65 2CE:DE C625:?8 96C q:3=6 @FED:56

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