Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

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Election Violence Prevention: In the Virtue of that Life and Power that Takes Away the Occasion for All Wars

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Jun 3, 2024

A First Monday Lecture with Emily Provance.

7:30pm – 9pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) on campus and via Zoom.

Free and open to the public!

Election violence prevention (EVP) is a specific peacebuilding discipline. We know the best practices from international efforts and analysis, but that doesn’t make doing EVP an easy thing. Successful EVP requires a commitment to work with anyone who agrees with the goal of nonviolence, even across enormous political and cultural differences. This lecture will explain how Quaker theology and community have prepared Friends to engage in EVP. We’ll also explore best practices, including specific practices developed by Friends in East Africa, and detail ways in which each person can engage in a manner that is legitimately helpful and authentic to their own spiritual gifts.
This and our other First Monday Lectures are streamed live and available as recordings on our YouTube channel, Pendle Hill USA.

An Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has endorsed the following Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends.  This call to action was authored by an ad hoc group of nineteen Friends, more than half of whom are from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In it they share that they see forces at work in our country that undermine some of our basic values: equality of all people, truth-telling, and deep listening.

Christie Duncan-Tessmer, PYM’s General Secretary says, “This call represents our Quaker faith in action: It expresses Truth as discerned in the discipline of relationship and prayer; it calls all to examine how this revelation can lead them to witness and act. It offers us all fellowship on a challenging journey.”

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