Community Conversation on Race – Film Screening
The Road to Justice Film Screening "This isn't Black history; it's is American history." It's history for all of us! Including a Talk-Back with the executive producer, Andre Robert Lee. REGISTER HERE - www.friendscouncil.org The Road to Justice follows two groups on a Civil Rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the profound […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the query, Do we listen for the questions? All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 969.
Pendle Hill Chorus
Pendle Hill 338 Plush Mill Rd, Wallingford, United StatesThe Pendle Hill Chorus is a non-audition community chorus that draws singers from across the tri-state area. Singing since 1993, our repertoire of sacred and secular music from around the world is challenging yet accessible. All are welcome regardless of musical or choral experience. While the ability to read music is useful, it is not […]
Drop-In Pendle Hill Spring Term Q&A
Zoom PADec 11, 2023 An informal space to ask questions about Pendle Hill’s Spring Term with Director of Education Frances Kreimer. 12-1pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom. If you have questions about Pendle Hill’s Spring Term, join Pendle Hill’s Director of Education, Frances Kreimer, for informal office hours to discuss the program and its application. […]
Hope, Justice, and Peace: An Advent Series
Zoom PAAdvent as a path of listening for Spirit Join Friends for an online adult religious education series exploring Advent — the time of expectant waiting before Christmas — with scripture, discussion, guided activities, music, prayers, and readings. Each week, elements of the traditional Nativity story are lifted up through the lens of liberation theology and […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the words (or chant, or prayer), Salaam. Shalom. Peace. Shalom. Peace. Salaam. Peace. Salaam. Shalom. All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 […]
Follow the Star: Pendle Hill Community Chorus Concert
Swarthmore Friends Meeting 12 Whittier Pl,, Swarthmore, United StatesDec. 13, 2023 Location: Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse. 8:00pm-9:00pm. Free and open to the public! No registration required, but early arrival is recommended. Directed by Jacqueline Coren, the Pendle Hill Chorus and special guests will present seasonal music from the 13th to the 21st century. The theme is drawn from one of the offerings, a selection […]
Welcome America’s Philly Holiday Experience: Free Museum Day
Arch Street Meeting House 320 Arch St, Philadelphia, United StatesArch Street Meeting House will be participating in Welcome America’s first Free Museum Day for the Philly Holiday Experience. ASMH will be open for FREE from 10 am to 7:00 pm with special extended hours. Registration is not required.
Young Adult Friends Holiday Potluck
Young Adult Friends, ages 18 through 35, will gather for a Holiday Potluck at a Friend's home in West Germantown, Philadelphia. Please bring a food item or non-alcoholic beverage to share with the larger YAF community to celebrate the festivities of this Holiday season. This is a dry event and Friends will receive the location […]
Christmas Carols with the Greater Philadelphia Coral Society
Join us for Christmas Carols by the fire! Cropwell Friends Meeting hosts the Greater Philadelphia Coral Society for an afternoon of traditional acapella carols. Free. All are welcome. Sunday, December 17 3:00pm Cropwell Friends Meeting 810 South Cropwell Road Marlton, NJ 08053
Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
Zoom PAThree options to participate in “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” In this 2-hour participatory program, we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and […]
Hope, Justice, and Peace: An Advent Series
Zoom PAAdvent as a path of listening for Spirit Join Friends for an online adult religious education series exploring Advent — the time of expectant waiting before Christmas — with scripture, discussion, guided activities, music, prayers, and readings. Each week, elements of the traditional Nativity story are lifted up through the lens of liberation theology and […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the query, Where do we find warmth? All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 969.
The Christmas Spirituals Project Holiday Concert
Arch Street Meeting House 320 Arch St, Philadelphia, United StatesAfroSouthern Education invites Friends of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting community to this year's Christmas Spirituals Project Holiday Concert, Thursday, December 21 at 7PM, at Arch Street Meeting House. The Christmas Spirituals Project is a free educational concert highlighting the Christmas songs, poetry, and traditional stories from the African American tradition dating from the late 1700s […]
Contemplative Christmas Eve
Sadsbury Friends Meeting 1089 Simmontown Rd, Gap, PA, United StatesJoin Sadsbury Friends for an hour of music, readings, silence, and candle lighting.
Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship
Music performed by the Braddocks followed by Meeting for Worship. Mulled cider and cookies served after rise of meeting.
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and lift up people and situations to be held in Light by the group. All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 969.
New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music – Music and the Human Condition
Pendle Hill 338 Plush Mill Rd, Wallingford, United StatesDec 29, 2023 Single-day participation in Karl Middleman's New Year's Retreat, The Inner Life of Music. Lunch and dinner included! Karl Middleman’s five-day workshop, New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music, invites participants to explore how composers use music as alchemy to turn personal hardships into life-giving measures. Through experiential individual explorations and group sharing, listening, […]
New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music – Songs of the Spirit, Wellsprings of Hope
Pendle Hill 338 Plush Mill Rd, Wallingford, United StatesDec. 30, 2023 Single-day participation in Karl Middleman’s New Year’s Retreat, "The Inner Life of Music." Lunch and dinner included! Karl Middleman’s five-day workshop, New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music, invites participants to explore how composers use music as alchemy to turn personal hardships into life-giving measures. Through experiential individual explorations and group sharing, listening, […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the query, How can we teach peace? All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 969.
Walking in the World as a Friend Discussion & Practice Group
Zoom PAWALKING IN THE WORLD AS A FRIEND: ESSENTIAL QUAKER PRACTICES by Nadine Hoover lays out the three jobs all Friends take on when we begin to follow the Quaker path–minister, steward, and witness. Practices like journaling and spiritual companions help us live into these roles as we tend the inward life (minister), align our outward lives […]
Addressing Patterns of Racial Wounding and Racial Justice in Quaker Communities
Zoom PAJan. 8, 2024 A First Monday Lecture with Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson 7:30pm - 9pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom. Free to the public! Registration required. Members of the Steering Committee of the Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism believed they had a responsibility to name the pain from patterns of white supremacy culture and […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the query, What do I need? How do I think about what I acquire? All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 […]
Young Adult Friends Winter Retreat: “Being a Friend in the World”
Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting Philadelphia, PA, United StatesRegister today: Calling Young Adult Friends, ages 18 through 35, to the Winter Retreat! The theme for this retreat is "Being a Friend in the World," and we will explore ideas of how to lead our lives as Friends with integrity and purpose. The Winter Retreat will begin Friday, January 12th at 6:00 p.m. at […]
1738 Wedding Reenactment
Sadsbury Friends Meeting 1089 Simmontown Rd, Gap, PA, United StatesThe first event of Sadsbury Friends Meeting's 300th anniversary. Join Sadsbury Friends for a reenactment of the first wedding under the care of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in 1738. Snow date - January 20
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the query, What do I need? How do I think about what I acquire? All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 […]
FGC Presents: Changing Times Retreat
In These Changing Times, How is Spirit Rising Among Us? Join Friends from North America in seeking what messages Spirit offers us as we explore Spirit led growth and transformation. We will have time to deepen our spiritual lives, share ideas across yearly meetings and explore new ones as we meet remotely. Registration is open […]
FGC Changing Times Conference
Zoom PARegistration is open for the January 18-21 2024 online FGC Changing Times Conference - In these changing times, how is spirit moving among us? Come and together we will see where Spirit leads us as we seek deeper connection to Spirit, explore next steps in becoming an actively antiracist faith community, see what structures will […]
Steve Chase Speaks On “Seeking Justice in the Holy Land”
Friends Center - Rufus Jones room and hybridWhy Peace with Justice? Reflections on a Quaker Delegation to Israel/Palestine The horrific events and war crimes committed by both Hamas and the State of Israel in recent weeks have sent shock waves of anguish, anger, and sorrow throughout the world. Yet, this conflict has roots in decades of displacement, military occupation, and apartheid that […]
Guitarist Keith Calmes – Worship in Song
Barnegat (NJ) Friends Meeting, 614 East Bay Avenue, 08005 614 East Bay Avenue, Barnegat, NJ +1 morePlease join the Barnegat Friends for a memorable performance by Keith Calmes in person at Barnegat Friends Meeting. Remote attendees are welcome to join via Zoom. Keith feels led to play a program of (all or mostly) religious music from Worship in Song (Friends Hymnal), specifically fine arrangements by renowned gospel guitarist Rick Foster. Please register […]
Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
Zoom PAThree options to participate in “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” In this 2-hour participatory program, we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and […]
Finding Peace in a Tumultuous World: A Mindfulness Series
Zoom PAAs our world careens into ever-deepening complexity and noise, how can we develop the inner quiet and balance that we crave? As we witness the suffering that is so pervasive, many of us ask ourselves, “How can I help?” Perhaps the greatest contribution many of us can offer is to learn to quiet our own […]
Wednesday Worship Sharing
Zoom PAThe tradition of gathering midweek has always been strong among Friends. Please join us to reflect and connect in fellowship. This week, we’ll sit together, online, and reflect on the words, Hold all things in Light. All are welcome; click here to join or call 646-558-8656; use meeting #885 631 969.
Thread Gathering: Governance & Stewardship / Property Issues
Arch Street Meeting House 320 Arch St, Philadelphia, United StatesThis day of community learning, held onsite at Arch Street Meeting House, will include ideas to support the many joys and challenges of our collective responsibility. Our meetinghouses and burial grounds connect us to our roots. Taking care of them is a gift to Quakers now and in the future. Topics for discussion will include: […]
Crys Matthews Concert – Social Justice Singer/Songwriter
Fallsington Friends Meetinghouse 9300 New Falls Rd, Levittown, United StatesJoin us for an evening with a bright star of new folk music whose songs are being compared to Woody Guthrie. An engaging performer, Crys wraps honest emotions around her socially conscious messages and dynamically delivers them with a warm heart and a strong voice, and she lifts spirits. With the release of her new, […]
