Category: Steve Chase
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Civil Resistance Documentary Films Launch
Dear Friends, Our former member at Putney Friends Meeting, Steve Chase, has shared these free resources in non-violent resistance. Civil Resistance Documentary Films Launch Dear Friends, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!: We just posted five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance on our website, in English as well as translated into over 20 languages. Originally available only on DVD or videocassette, and […]
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Nonviolent Action and the New Story
Dear Friends, I will be moderating this interesting webinar on “Nonviolent Action and the New Story” with Michael Nagler for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict on June 22. This should appeal to my nonviolent activist friends, my environmentalist friends, my Quaker friends, and my Pachamama Alliance friends and anyone who has ever attended an […]
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New online learning opportunities at Pendle Hill
Hello NEYM monthly meeting friends! Greetings from Pendle Hill! I am the new communications and outreach coordinator here, and look forward to being in touch regarding our programming and educational opportunities. I am reaching out today because several of you had a chance to join Doug Gwyn in his bible study half hours at NEYM […]
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“Exploring the Quaker Way”
Our own Steve Chase visited and worshiped with us at Putney Friends Meeting this weekend. He informed us of this new online learning opportunity offered by him at Pendle Hill. “The goals of this course are to help seekers, attenders, and interested members of Friends meetings: 1) deepen their understanding of the Quaker movement; […]
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Beyond Conventional Wisdom
Today, I was struck powerfully by the fact that there are so many proverbs in scripture that express some lazy and erroneous conventional “wisdom” that we should question and reject. An example of this is the frequently repeated notion in Proverbs that if you love God and are faithful to the Spirit’s leadings, you will […]