Covid-19 Vaccine Information / April 14, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

North Carolina Vaccination rates continue to increase. New cases of COVID and hospitalizations were slightly increased but fairly stable this past week in North Carolina and in the United States. This is believed to be due to more people starting to travel and relaxation of previous policies like mask mandates. Concern is also present about vaccine variants which may be more contagious , not be covered by vaccines or cause more severe illness. Continue to…

Jon Watts Concert / April 24, 2021

Community, Music, News

April 24, 2021 / 7:00 p.m. /  In 2006 as his senior project for the Guilford College Quaker Leadership Scholars Program, Jon Watts set up a recording studio in the lower level of Friendship Friends’ meetinghouse and created “A Few Songs Occasioned.” That collection of original music reflecting on early Quaker history and spirituality served in part as a launching pad for his later musical projects and QuakerSpeak. It was a remarkable accomplishment for an…

North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Antiracism Discussion / April 27, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

North Carolina Fellowship of Friends will host an antiracism discussion group. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. when the NCFF antiracism discussion group will look at how the elements of our country’s racial caste system have appeared in Quaker history and in modern-day Quakerism. Kate Seel and CH Holcombe will be presenting the background material. For this discussion, if you have the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African…