Pendle Hill’s Reading Group focuses on a mix of Pendle Hill pamphlets and other Quaker materials, gathering monthly to consider queries about the reading in a spirit of worship sharing.
In October, we will consider Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One (PHP #439) by Robert Griswold.
Free and open to the public! Register below to reserve your spot.
Free to the public! Registration required.
Join Christy Randazzo via Zoom and explore Quaker theology through the framework of an ecosystem, seeing how the seemingly chaotic and disorganized nature of Quaker theology actually becomes a beautiful symphony.
This program will be online via Zoom and will follow this schedule:
Friday, October 1: 7:30pm – 9pm
Saturday, October 2: 9:30am – 12pm (break mixed in), 1pm – 2:30pm, 4pm – 5:30pm, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Sunday, October 3: 9:30am – 12pm (break mixed in)
For more information and event registration, please click A Quaker Theological Ecosystem Weekend Workshop.
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Participate in small groups for dialogue and sharing leadings about who we are called to be, your own sources of faith and Light, and how this connects to how you travel forward in today’s world.
The Silence & Light for Quaker Newcomers eRetreat invites you to explore and practice the experience of Quaker worship and silent waiting, for an inward encounter with Inner Teacher who leads, guides, and transforms us every day. This session is offered for people who are curious about Quakers or new to Quakerism and will explore the basics of Quaker theology and practice.
The Silence & Light for Quaker Newcomers eRetreat will be facilitated by Michael Levi.
This book group will explore the body-centered trauma of white supremacy and a path toward healing through a discussion of the book My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem.
Join Bette Rainbow Hoover (BYM) and David Anick (NEYM) in a 6 week interactive discussion of Menakem’s book.
This is the second in a series of articles about Quakers who’ve impacted the fields of education and contributed to global scientific, medical, political, or economic leadership. The first article was published on September 23 and covered Elise Goulding, Ezra Cornell, and Johns Hopkins.
Nitobe Inazo (1862-1933) was a Japanese Quaker who became the first Under Secretary General for the League of Nations. Nitobe was born into a samurai family on Honshu, the main island of Japan. While in college, he became a Christian and later a Friend. In 1884, He moved to the US for post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. There he began attending Quaker meetings, telling friends, “I very much like their simplicity and earnestness.”
[Read more…] about Quakers in Education: Nitobe Inazo, Elizabeth Gray Vining, and Joseph Wharton
Quaker education has always been grounded in basic principles of the Religious Society of Friends. Each child has that of God within, and Friends’ education is centered in truth, practical learning, scientific inquiry, simplicity, and concern for civic society.
Quakers have a long history of questioning power and engaging in social action for human rights and peace. Today, many Quaker schools or Quaker affiliated institutions of higher education frame their learning environments with social or civic responsibilities and define community expectations through the lens of Friends’ values while still honoring the individual.
As the United States grew from colony to nation, the Quakers advocated for and delivered universal pubic education in Pennsylvania, built colleges, and created private Quaker secondary and elementary schools. The motto of the William Penn Charter School; “Good Instruction is Better than Riches” dates back to its founding in 1689 and still serves to describe Friends’ fundamental belief that knowledge outperforms wealth over time.
In the United States, Quakers were key to the founding of Haverford College (Pennsylvania), Guilford College (North Carolina,) Earlham College (Indiana), Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), Johns Hopkins University (Maryland), Cornell University (New York), and the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania). All that does not mean that Quakers were perfect. As we see in the stories below, the were human and also strongly influenced by their own time and place.
[Read more…] about Quakers in Education: Elise M. Boulding, Ezra Cornell, and Johns Hopkins
