Pennsauken, NJ, native Calvin Bell graduated from Moorestown Friends School in 2020 with an impressive roster of accolades, including a Yale Award for Community Engagement, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, a White House visit as a video game innovator (for an app that enables residents to report environmental hazards, in English or Spanish, to local government), and a lead role in ‘The Drowsy Chaperone.’ At MFS, Calvin served on the Diversity Committee; today he’s a junior at Morehouse College, an historically Black college. He’ll join Moorestown Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee to talk about his experiences at MFS, at Morehouse, and through many richly varied experiences of a young life. You are welcome to join us on Zoom, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81587816369 or meeting ID 815 8781 6369.
Education
Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices
Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022
A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices
Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022
A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices
Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022
A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices
Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022
A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
Quakers in Education: Nitobe Inazo, Elizabeth Gray Vining, and Joseph Wharton
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.”
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Quakers in Education: Elise M. Boulding, Ezra Cornell, and Johns Hopkins
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.
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