A continuation of the account of our September Quaker Pilgrimage. . . The Quaker Pilgrimage, which began at New Garden Meeting on Friday, September 16, was planned as part of a celebration of the 350 years that followed the visits to America of English Friends William Edmundson and George Fox. A bus was chartered and paid for by our meeting’s Blaylock Fund and carried about 30 of us Friends (from several NC meetings/yearly meetings) to…
“Friends are reminded to bring lunch for a carry-out picnic at the rise of Meeting for Worship this Sunday (2nd of October). Monthly Meeting for Business will follow the picnic.”
Adult Forum Hybrid Adult Forum went well! Moving forward, Friends may join us in the parlor, or on Zoom. Zoom links will continue to go out with Religious Education updates and information. Contact Karin Heller if you would like to receive links. [email protected] Join us October 2, and October 9 for New Garden’s own version of “heART journaling”. Art supplies (paper, markers, crayons, scissors, etc.) will be provided for Friends joining in person, but you…
From Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship by Donna MacDaniel and Vanessa Julye: “The first Quaker voices against the enslavement of Africans were raised in the late 1600s. . . In 1676 William Edmundson was the first Friend of European descent in the British Empire to write of his conviction that it was unchristian to enslave Africans. [He] spent many years traveling to and living in Quaker communities in the British Caribbean and North American…
Being able to hear other Friends express themselves in the vocabulary most meaningful to them while hearing their meaning in one’s own vocabulary is the essence of listening in tongues. This may have been the real miracle of Pentecost: the speakers told their story in the language familiar to them, but those listening were able to hear in a new way, translating unfamiliar vocabulary into their own words. Why this is important and how to…