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May 2019: The Living Faith of the Dead

May 20, 2019 •
This month: honoring what has come before, Annual Sessions announcements, reflections from recent gatherings, poetry, and more. Read the...

Apply for Prejudice & Poverty Grant

Apr 9, 2019 •
The Working Party of Racial Social Economic Justice Committee (RSEJ) seeks applications for grants from the Prejudice and Poverty Fund. We...

Join the "Virtual Plenary"

Jan 4, 2019 • Lisa Graustein, Beacon Hill (MA) Friends Meeting, , , (Recordings), (Sessions)
At Annual Sessions in August 2019, Lisa Graustein (Beacon Hill, MA, Friends Meeting) will facilitate a plenary (whole group) session...

Speakers Announced for Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions 2019

Jan 3, 2019 • Fritz Weiss (Hanover, NH, Friends Meeting), presiding clerk, (Sessions)
I am very pleased to share with you that the Bible Half-Hour speaker at Annual Sessions this summer will be Colin Saxton, and the plenary...

Nurturing Faithfulness Program Returns in 2019

Sep 20, 2018 •
Nurturing Faithfulness is a program for individuals who have a spiritual nudge to orient one's heart towards the Divine, be more faithful...

The Latest from Committees & Programs

Come and See! Reflections from FWCCs Americas Section Meeting

May 6, 2019 • (FWCC Committee)
¡Ven y Ve ! Come and See! (John 1:46) was the theme for the Americas meeting of Friends World Committee for Consultation, held in March...

Immigration Justice Working Group Forming

May 3, 2019 • Maureen Lanan, Friends Meeting at Cambridge MA)
Friends who care about justice for immigrants in their communities are invited to join the Immigration Justice Working Group (IJWG). An...

Partners in Spirit: Relationships, Not Structures

May 3, 2019 • Briana Halliwell, Vassalboro (ME) Friends Meeting
The Partners in Spirit Retreat in February 2019 represented my first wobbly step back into the forceful river of life flowing through New...

Moses Brown School Announces New Director of Friends Education

May 1, 2019 • Matt Glendenning, Head of School, (Nurturing Friends Education)
Colleagues, I am very pleased to let you know that, with a national search now completed, Jennifer McFadden will become MB’s permanent...

Orchard Work—thinking about Robert Frost’s “After Apple Picking”

May 1, 2019 • Carl Williams, Plainfield (VT) Friends Meeting
My long two‐pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may...

Worship as a poem

May 1, 2019 • Peter Crysdale, Allen's Neck (MA) Friends Meeting
“It takes forever to make a woods” ( Wendell Berry ) 1. The inward Motion Sometimes silent worship is communion. Other times the washing-...

Finding Grounding in Unfamiliar Territory at the FWCC-SOA Gathering

May 1, 2019 • Minga Claggett-Borne (Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MA)
In mid-March 2019, Friends World Committee (FWCC) in all the Americas met in the middle of the vast Missouri plains, near the homeland of...

April 2019: The Purpose of Wings

Apr 12, 2019 •
This month, read about upcoming workshops, continue the Virtual Plenary experiment, and find out what Friends are doing in New England and...

Minute of Support for Immigrant Families and Asylum Seekers

Apr 3, 2019 •
As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we believe that the human family is one family; that there is that of God in...

Speaking Against the Death Penalty

Mar 26, 2019 •
Margaret Hawthorn (Monadnock, NH, Friends Meeting) offered this testimony to the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee on March 26, 2019...

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