Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Undoing Racism

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/

 

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/

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Moorestown Meeting attender Elizabeth will facilitate discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation with our Anti-Racism Committee.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Gather with us for a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation.

Let’s Talk About the Baldwin-Buckley Debate

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Ben will facilitate a discussion of Fringe Art’s production of ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’, a recreation of a famed 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., on the question, “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” If you have a chance, see the performance Sept 9, 10 or 11 at the FringeArts Theater on the Philadelphia waterfront. You can also watch the original debate online, and find many related commentaries and analyses. Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to join the conversation.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee as our attender Elizabeth facilitates a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s beautifully human, short novel Ellen Foster. The award-winning book about a strong, smart girl navigating an unusually challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Enjoy a book club and help support the important work Friends are doing in witness to our testament of equality; click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 873 3565 8140.

BLM block party at Trenton Meetinghouse

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Food, fun and solidarity.  Black Lives Matter, which prepares and distributes food and care packs at the Meetinghouse monthly is making the August distribution into a street festival.  Fun, games, sprinklers, food and fellowship for our neighborhood and beyond.  Cooperation with neighborhood congregations and groups should make this a great event.  Volunteers from other meetings are very welcome.  Email trentonquakers@gmail.com

(Rain date August 28)

Let’s Talk About ‘How Can We Win?’

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Author and activist Kimberly Jones went viral with a YouTube interview in which she asks, “How can we win?” Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee recommends the interview highly; we’ll host a discussion of Jones’s perspective on race, protest, violence and economics for this Let’s Talk session on Thursday 22 July. Watch Jones’s seven-minute interview on YouTube – and maybe her 12-minute appearance on The Daily Show – then join us to discuss Jones’s ideas and our own perspectives; click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369.

Cadbury Library (Your PhYM Library) reminder! Visit! Borrow!

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Remember the Yearly Meeting library?    It is at Friends Center, was on the first floor, now on the  balcony of the Cherry Street Room!

  • It continues to be open without staff (Rita retired in 2010), thanks to volunteers.
  • It shows up at Yearly Meeting in session, and on the web, from which you can  borrow  by mail.
  • Call 215-241-7220 or email library@pym.org

We are open weekly, and can be open for events if you contact us in advance.

Come & Visit *Your Library in person* – change in Thursday hours.

  • Tues 12-6 pm
  • Thurs   12:45 – 5:30 pm
  • Sundays 12:30 – 1:30 pm  (thanks to CPMM volunteers.)

WATCH for additional time to be announced, 1 Saturday monthly, 10-2

  • Call 215-241-7220
  • See the catalog listing on the web 24/7: www.pym.org/library
  • LIKE us on FACEBOOK!

*closed holidays & times that Friends Center is closed.