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Defending Marriage Equality and Defending Our Friends
Putney Friends Meeting has long sought divine wisdom around the often contentious issue of marriage equality for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples. Before the laws of the State of Vermont changed for the better, we agreed to take “illegal,” but spiritually-sound, gay and lesbian weddings and marriages under the care of our Meeting.…
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PFM Member Helps Launch “Quakers In Transition” Website
Befriending Creation newsletter announces that New ‘Quakers in Transition’ Website Puts Friends In Solidarity With International Movement The Befriending Creation article below by Steve Chase, a member of Putney Friends Meeting, talks about Quakers In Transition, a new online project sponsored by the Earthcare Ministries Committee of the New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious…
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PFM Minute on Closing Vermont Yankee
At its business meeting on Sunday, November 13, Putney Friends Meeting approved the following minute on closing Vermont Yankee and asked our Social Justice and Peace committee to contact Kendra Ulrich of Safe and Green about setting up a meeting at the Meeting House for for exploring the creation of a PFM Affinity Group as…
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Help Cook for Brattleboro Overflow Shelter!
As we did last year, Putney Friends will once again be part of a community effort to provide meals for people sleeping at the Overflow Shelter (at the Baptist Church in Brattleboro). Tentatively, Putney Friends will be responsible for preparing and serving meals the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. Cooks and servers are…
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Burlington Friends Minute on the Closing of Vermont Yankee
At the last Northwest Quarterly Meeting, Burlington Friends Meeting presented their meeting’s minute on closing Vermont Yankee, asking if Quarterly Meeting might adopt or adapt it as a collective statement from Quarterly Meeting that will be shared with Vermont legislators as well as all local meetings in Northwest Quarter. The recent Quarterly Meeting has now…
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Special Events in November
This announcement of November events just in from Carol Forsythe, the Clerk of Putney Friends Meeting: Nov. 6 – Annual Fall Meeting Clean-up and Workday, from 9:30 – 10:30 and at 11:30 – 12:30, followed by a potluck. Nov. 13 – A Quaker Men’s Group gathering, at 6pm in the Meeting House. A few of…
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Anyone Interested In Singing This Sunday, October 16
We invite anyone of any age interested in singing simple songs from the Quaker Hymnal, Rise Up Singing songs, Taize chants, songs that can be learned by ear, to come together this coming Sunday, Oct 16, in the meeting room. We’ll begin a little after 9:30 as soon as the 8:30 meeting for worship rises…
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