Category: Wider Quaker World
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GROUNDING THE NATION AND OURSELVES IN WORSHIP DURING THE 2016 ELECTION
Whatever your political views, and whatever the outcome of the election, all of us, our nation and the world will need prayerful grounding. Anyone is welcome to come to the Meetinghouse for any length of time, from 8am to 10pm Tuesday and Wednesday, to pray, worship, contemplate. On Wednesday, we will hold our weekly unprogrammed…
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WE ARE FREE OF THE PIPELINE!
Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center “Energy giant Kinder Morgan Inc. has suspended additional work and spending on its Northeast Energy Direct project, a controversial natural gas pipeline proposed through Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Kinder Morgan said on Wednesday that the company didn’t receive the extra commitments from big customers that it needed to proceed with…
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Quaker Climate Activism In NYC–All Invited
Earth Quaker Action Team Climate Disruption Investigation of PNC Bank Saturday, September 20th, in New York City. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gathers government leaders to support “an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution,” the Earth Quaker Action Team is joining tens of thousands of people in New York City for the…
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PFM Member Shares Her Perspective on FUM’s Discriminatory Personnel Policy
Putney Friends Meeting is a member of Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting. Our meeting has gone on record that it supports the overall work of FUM internationally, but opposes FUM’s personnel policy that discriminates against gay men and lesbians, including married ones. Below is a recent personal letter to FUM leaders from a…
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An After Christmas Poem by Howard Thurman
I stumbled on to this poem by Howard Thurman on Christmas eve. Thurman was a mystical, prophetic preacher active in the civil rights movement who studied with Rufus Jones and joined the Wider Quaker Fellowship in the 1960s. I found this Christmas poem of his in the book Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality…
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Lucy Duncan On How Quaker Meetings Can Work With AFSC
Click here for a 28 minute audio of AFSC’s Friends Liaison Lucy Duncan explaining some of the opportunities for local Quaker faith-based activism in cooperation with the American Friends Service Committee. On October 18, 2012 Lucy Duncan, AFSC’s Friends Liaison, and Madeline Schaefer, Friends Relations Fellow, discussed a new and developing program at AFSC—the Quaker…
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Steve Chase’s Book Chosen As PYM’s “One Book, One Yearly Meeting” Selection for 2012-2013
At the end of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions this Sunday, it was announced that Steve Chase’s new Quaker Press book, Letters To A Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction To The Quaker Way was chosen as the coming year’s selection for PYM’s “One Book, One Yearly Meeting” program. As noted on PYM’s website, “One Book,…
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PFM Member Recommended To Serve As NEYM Field Secretary
From NEYM’s Webpage: With joy and anticipation, Permanent Board will bring the name of Noah Baker Merrill to NEYM Annual Sessions in early August for approval as Yearly Meeting secretary, beginning January 1, 2013. Noah and his wife Natalie are members of Putney (VT) Monthly Meeting, where Noah has been released* for service in the…
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Gay Quaker Performance Artist To Visit Brattleboro
Peterson Tuscano will be appearing in Brattleboro at New England Youth Theater Tuesday, June 26 at 7 PM. He will be preforming his one-person show Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible as a fundraiser for the Men’s Program AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. (For ticket information for this daring and caring performance, please call 254-4444.) In…
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