A movie focused on the life and work of Friend Bayard Rustin is being released in the coming days, joining the 2002 documentary Brother Outsider and offering a new way for the wider public to learn about the peace, labor, and civil rights organizer and activist. [Read more…] about Feature Film about Friend Rustin Bayard Opens November 3rd
Peace
AFSC Meeting for Worship with Attention to Peace in Palestine and Israel
The Quaker Engagement Office of the American Friends Service Committee invites you to join us in a Meeting for Worship with attention to peace in Palestine and Israel. This is a time for Friends to come together in worship and solidarity as we grapple with the tragic events and lives lost as a result of ongoing conflict. Please share this invitation with your meeting or church and members of your community.
AFSC Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now
Join the American Friends Service Committee to take action and write to Congress during this heightened period of crisis in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. AFSC will share an update from our staff on the ground, then help you engage with us in making calls to the White House and your member of Congress, calling for an immediate ceasefire. We will also show a tutorial on effective letter writing and spend time writing letters together. We will share resources and other action items that can increase our collective voices at this critical time.
Thank you for offering prayers and support as we witness the horrific scenes of violence and destruction in Palestine and Israel.
AFSC Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now
Join the American Friends Service Committee to take action and write to Congress during this heightened period of crisis in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. AFSC will share an update from our staff on the ground, then help you engage with us in making calls to the White House and your member of Congress, calling for an immediate ceasefire. We will also show a tutorial on effective letter writing and spend time writing letters together. We will share resources and other action items that can increase our collective voices at this critical time.
Thank you for offering prayers and support as we witness the horrific scenes of violence and destruction in Palestine and Israel.
AFSC Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now
Join the American Friends Service Committee to take action and write to Congress during this heightened period of crisis in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. AFSC will share an update from our staff on the ground, then help you engage with us in making calls to the White House and your member of Congress, calling for an immediate ceasefire. We will also show a tutorial on effective letter writing and spend time writing letters together. We will share resources and other action items that can increase our collective voices at this critical time.
Thank you for offering prayers and support as we witness the horrific scenes of violence and destruction in Palestine and Israel.
AFSC Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now
Join the American Friends Service Committee to take action and write to Congress during this heightened period of crisis in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. AFSC will share an update from our staff on the ground, then help you engage with us in making calls to the White House and your member of Congress, calling for an immediate ceasefire. We will also show a tutorial on effective letter writing and spend time writing letters together. We will share resources and other action items that can increase our collective voices at this critical time.
Thank you for offering prayers and support as we witness the horrific scenes of violence and destruction in Palestine and Israel.
Young Friends Overnight at Peace Fair!
Welcome back from Summer Break! Our first Young Friends (grades 9 to 12) overnight of the 2023-24 year is in a couple of weeks, taking place at the at the Annual Peace Fair at Buckingham Meeting/Buckingham Friends School in Lahaska, PA! This is an opportunity to get some service hours in for school, and to have fellowship with other Young Friends and the wider Quaker community!
The Peace Fair features local crafts, artwork, traditional and vegetarian food, kids’ games, a dunk tank, and Bucks County area non-profits that focus on peace, community service, healthy living, and the environment.
Young Friends will arrive in the morning at 8:00 AM on Saturday, September 30th and serve as stagehands for the Peace Fair, helping with set-up, tasks during the fair, and clean-up. We’ll help vendors get unloaded and set up before the start of the Fair. During the hours of the Fair, Young Friends will do a variety of tasks, including running kids’ games and helping with food preparation and service. At the close of the Fair, Young Friends will help vendors pack tables and tents away, to reset the space for the host Meeting.
Following the clean-up of the Fair, Young Friends will gather for a pizza party and overnight at Buckingham Meeting. We’ll sleep at the Meeting, and share in community building, conversation, worship, and fun with other Young Friends!
The overnight will end on Sunday morning, October 1st, at 11:30 AM, following Meeting for Worship with Buckingham Friends. Bring a friend!
Cost for the overnight is $30. Young Friends will receive a food coupon for lunch at the fair, as well as $10 in spending money. There is scholarship money available that is earmarked for PYM youth, so please do not let cost keep you away!
For more information, please contact Kristin Simmons, PYM Youth Engagement Coordinator, ksimmons@pym.org
Pennswood Village Rededicates Its Peace Pole
In 2001, Pennswood Village, the Quaker-founded retirement and health care community in Newtown, installed a Peace Pole in front of its community center. Two of the speakers were atomic bomb survivors (Hibakushas) from Japan, Mr. Shigeyuki Yama from Hiroshima and Mr. Hideo Tose from Nagasaki, the sites in 1945 of the two atomic bombs detonated over those cities which killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
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Hope Leans Forward
An online series with Valerie Brown offering tools and practices to navigate these challenging times.
Two consecutive Saturdays, 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time (US & Canada) in collaboration with Woodbrooke Study Centre.
We are being pulled apart and broken-open by the global pandemic, violence, racial injustice, climate crisis, etc. This course will equip you with tools and practices to navigate these high-stress, high-anxiety times.
Based on Valerie’s latest book, Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022), this course will cover skill-building, evidence-based mindfulness practice, and soul-amplifying questions grounded in Quaker faith and practice that go to the heart of discerning your life purpose, meaning, and direction and supporting you to live your best self now.
In these highly interactive sessions, we’ll explore the Buddhist Seven Factors of Awakening, including:
- Choose bravely when conditions are uncertain and ambiguous.
- Examine unconscious patterns that hold you back.
- Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions.
- Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
- Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
- Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.
Hope Leans Forward
An online series with Valerie Brown offering tools and practices to navigate these challenging times.
Two consecutive Saturdays, 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time (US & Canada) in collaboration with Woodbrooke Study Centre.
We are being pulled apart and broken-open by the global pandemic, violence, racial injustice, climate crisis, etc. This course will equip you with tools and practices to navigate these high-stress, high-anxiety times.
Based on Valerie’s latest book, Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022), this course will cover skill-building, evidence-based mindfulness practice, and soul-amplifying questions grounded in Quaker faith and practice that go to the heart of discerning your life purpose, meaning, and direction and supporting you to live your best self now.
In these highly interactive sessions, we’ll explore the Buddhist Seven Factors of Awakening, including:
- Choose bravely when conditions are uncertain and ambiguous.
- Examine unconscious patterns that hold you back.
- Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions.
- Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
- Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
- Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.
