Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Anti-Racism

Blessing Darkness with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

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A weekend workshop with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

Out of the winter season, participants in this program will explore the darkness together. We will start with a blessing:

We will bless each other.
We will bless what we bring to the adventure.
We will bless our beautiful world,
both the miraculous and catastrophic.

Then we will turn toward how we each define the dark and enter into a journey of reflection, mirroring insights, singing, movement, journaling, and communing in silence to deepen our relationship to the dark. We will then explore themes of the dark as a place of healing and rest, womb that births our vision, our creativity and the home of awe and wonder.

Join us for an adventure into the willowy shadows. Bringing our curiosity and hearts, we will discover, celebrate, and heal together.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, please visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/blessing-darkness/

New Years: Open Heart, Peaceful Mind with Valerie Brown

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A Retreat for Rest and Reflection

Registration 4-6pm in the Barn, December 28, first session after dinner. Concludes with lunch January 1st.

This is an especially meaningful time for our community to come back together. Our lives have changed through the challenges of global pandemic, climate crisis, political polarization, and racial and social injustice. These societal challenges have also created space for new experiences, deeper looking, and renewed aspirations. Join us as we return in-person to our Beloved Pendle Hill and our 15th Annual Open Heart, Peaceful Mind Retreat for rest and reflection.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, please visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/new-years-open-heart-peaceful-mind-3/

Aiming for Justice: Race Reparations and Right Paths with K. Melchor Quick Hall

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Dec 13 and 14, 2021 (pre-workshop sessions); workshops begin proper in January 2022

Mon  12pm – 1:30pm EST, Tue 7pm – 8:30pm EST

Designed by Black feminist scholar-activist K. Melchor Quick Hall, the month-long workshop will be facilitated by – and offered for – US-based, white inheritors of wealth.

From the very beginning, this reparations workshop was designed as a popular education experience that would not pay homage to the knowledge of any single expert. Past participants will be taking lead by facilitating all synchronous workshop sessions. Videos, readings, and workshop design will continue to be managed by K. Melchor Quick Hall, who has designed and modified the workshop for the past three iterations.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/aiming-for-justice-race-reparations-and-right-paths-4/

Into the Night: Holiness of Darkness with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

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A Pendle Hill First Monday Lecture with Rev. Rhetta Morgan via Zoom.

In this exploration, we will look at the hard things that happen in the dark, and how language of darkness can become imbued with bias and limitation. In examining the language and frames around darkness, can we challenge negative connotations and move towards holding the dark as holy? This First Monday program will not only utilize lecture, but also song and meditation. Free to the public! Registration required.

For more information and to register online, visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/into-the-night-holiness-of-darkness/

 

Book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

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Burlington Quarter Friends invite you to participate in a 4-part online book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

  • Sunday, Oct 10      2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Oct. 24     2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Nov 7       2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday November 21  2:00 – 3:15p

Discussions will be facilitated by Nikki Mosgrove of Trenton Friends Meeting & Nia Ministries, Inc. If you’d like to participate, please contact the facilitator at niaministriesinc@gmail.com no later than September 24th to express interest. Additional information, reading instructions and discussion questions will be sent to participants directly on September 27th.

Please direct all book discussion questions to niaministriesinc@gmail.com

Book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

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Burlington Quarter Friends invite you to participate in a 4-part online book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

  • Sunday, Oct 10      2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Oct. 24     2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Nov 7       2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday November 21  2:00 – 3:15p

Discussions will be facilitated by Nikki Mosgrove of Trenton Friends Meeting & Nia Ministries, Inc. If you’d like to participate, please contact the facilitator at niaministriesinc@gmail.com no later than September 24th to express interest. Additional information, reading instructions and discussion questions will be sent to participants directly on September 27th.

Please direct all book discussion questions to niaministriesinc@gmail.com

Book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

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Burlington Quarter Friends invite you to participate in a 4-part online book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

  • Sunday, Oct 10      2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Oct. 24     2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Nov 7       2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday November 21  2:00 – 3:15p

Discussions will be facilitated by Nikki Mosgrove of Trenton Friends Meeting & Nia Ministries, Inc. If you’d like to participate, please contact the facilitator at niaministriesinc@gmail.com no later than September 24th to express interest. Additional information, reading instructions and discussion questions will be sent to participants directly on September 27th.

Please direct all book discussion questions to niaministriesinc@gmail.com

Let’s Talk About Faith-based Reparations

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A world that is accountable for past harms including slavery, colonialism, genocide, and other material and moral abuses will be a world better for everyone. The Grassroots Reparations Campaign sponsors a course to examine the history, spiritual, conceptual (ethical and moral) and practical dimensions of reparations as a global movement. Centered on the approach to reparation from the United Nations, the twelve-hour course explores the perspectives that justify and help many ground the case for faith-based reparations. The spiritual journey to uproot white supremacy externally and internally co-exists with working toward full reparations and abolition-democracy. Barb Kreider will offer some insights from this course. Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to be part of the conversation.

Café Darkness Virtual Writing Workshop for People of Color with Joanne Daley and Danie “Ocean” Jackson

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Gathering twice daily from 11am-12:30pm and 6:30pm-8:30pm Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Café Darkness a virtual writing space for people of color, of all genres, ages, and levels of experience. At the onset of the pandemic, we began meeting monthly. This year, we will invite people of color who are interested in a week of dedicated writing and sharing to connect to the written text, the spoken word, and the body’s language.

For more information, to register, or apply for financial aid, visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/cafe-darkness-virtual-writing-workshop-for-people-of-color/

Book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

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Burlington Quarter Friends invite you to participate in a 4-part online book discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist!”

  • Sunday, Oct 10      2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Oct. 24     2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday, Nov 7       2:00 – 3:15p
  • Sunday November 21  2:00 – 3:15p

Discussions will be facilitated by Nikki Mosgrove of Trenton Friends Meeting & Nia Ministries, Inc. If you’d like to participate, please contact the facilitator at niaministriesinc@gmail.com no later than September 24th to express interest. Additional information, reading instructions and discussion questions will be sent to participants directly on September 27th.

Please direct all book discussion questions to niaministriesinc@gmail.com