This is an encore performance of O Come O Come Emmanuel from the 2018 Christmas program of Downingtown Friends Meeting. From left to right, the whistlers are Julian Onderdonk, Jim Supplee, Deborah Miles, and John Macaulay. [Read more…] about O Come O Come Emmanuel
Archives for December 2019
Quaker Self Portrait: Haddonfield Monthly Meeting
Each year, we gather for a special breakfast and fellowship on the last Sunday before Christmas. This year, we memorialized it with a group photo as part of our annual Self-Portrait. (Additional children and several adults were engaged in another activity.)
Quaker Self Portrait: Quakertown Monthly Meeting
Quakertown silence
Drawing us all together
Inner Lights shining.
Conference of National Black Churches Resolution: Fierce urgency of now
PYM participates on the board of the National Council of Churches. This week we are sharing PYM’s General Secretary, Christie Duncan-Tessmer’s, reporting about the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC).
The CNBC’s goal is to improve the quality of life for African Americans through their unique perspective on faith, and channel that energy into advocacy efforts. Just as Quaker Meetings and yearly meetings share their minutes with each other, the CNBC shared this call to action with all the member churches in our group. Their call to action to 20,000,000 members follows. [Read more…] about Conference of National Black Churches Resolution: Fierce urgency of now
Close of Conference of National Black Churches
PYM participates on the board of the National Council of Churches. This week we are sharing PYM’s General Secretary, Christie Duncan-Tessmer’s, trip to the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC). Christie is posting the final of three stories about the CNBC conference, sharing how the Conference of Black Churches is speaking to religious and secular communities today. The CNBC’s goal is to improve the quality of life for African Americans through their unique perspective on faith, and channel that energy into advocacy efforts.
[Read more…] about Close of Conference of National Black Churches
Reverend Dr. LaKeesha Walrond – Support on the Spiritual Path
PYM participates on the board of the National Council of Churches. This week we are sharing PYM’s General Secretary, Christie Duncan-Tessmer’s, trip to the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC). Christie is posting the second of three stories about the CNBC conference, sharing how the Conference of Black Churches is speaking to religious and secular communities today. The CNBC’s goal is to improve the quality of life for African Americans through their unique perspective on faith, and channel that energy into advocacy efforts. [Read more…] about Reverend Dr. LaKeesha Walrond – Support on the Spiritual Path
Youth Programs Team Updates: New Staff and An Invitation
New staff! The Youth Programs team is delighted to announce that Crystal Hershey has agreed to serve as the Children and Families Program Assistant. While Crystal is a new addition to our team, she is a familiar face in youth programs and the PYM community.
[Read more…] about Youth Programs Team Updates: New Staff and An Invitation
Listening to the Still Small Voice – a report on the Conference of National Black Churches
PYM participates on the board of the National Council of Churches. We’ve written before about their activities; traveling to the Middle East, and convening an event on the mall in Washington, DC to address racism in America. This week we are sharing Christie Duncan-Tessmer’s trip to the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC). During this trip, PYM will be posting stories about the CNBC conference, sharing how their unified voice is speaking to religious and secular communities today. The CNBC’s goal is to improve the quality of life for African Americans through their unique perspective on faith, and channel that energy into advocacy efforts.
Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges team up for Tri-Co City classes
This fall, about 35 students from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges took courses at the Friends Center in Philadelphia as part of a new Tri-College Philly Program.
[Read more…] about Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges team up for Tri-Co City classes
CFP Deadline Extended: Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, and Funding Opportunity
***Deadline for Proposals Extended to December 20, 2019***
Call For Proposals
Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana
June 12-14, 2020
The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists (CQHA) will hold its 23rd biennial conference at Earlham College on June 12-14, 2020.
CQHA is a community that brings together those who study the history of Quakers and Quakerism with practitioners from cultural institutions that make records of the Quaker past available for scholarship. The Conference takes place every two years at locations in North America and abroad, and welcomes both Quaker and non-Quaker participants from diverse backgrounds.
We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Quaker history, across all time periods and locations. This year we encourage proposals on the following topics: Challenges of diversity, equity, or inclusion in Quakerism; Quakerism in Indiana and the US Midwest; (Re)assessments of Quakerism and Quaker historiography.