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Conscientious Objection: Discerning and Documenting a Claim

from the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative A series of sessions from 7:00pm-8:30pm: December 27 - January 3 - January 10- January 24 Now that the Selective Service System (SSS) registration for the draft in most states is automatic when getting a state driver’s license, Quaker youth and other youth of faith rarely consider making a […]

Going Forward Together – Palestine as a lens for collective liberation

- featuring Central Philadelphia member Sa'ed Atshan, and a member of PYM's Middle East Collaborative   We are excited to put on this special Philadelphia based webinar. Please don't forget to register. REGISTER From police brutality in Philadelphia to child detentions and military occupation in Palestine, the U.S. is implicated in systemic racism across borders. […]

Byberry MM Book Discussion

Join us for a wonderful evening with F/friends as we discuss books (mostly novels but some non-fiction) that have an element of Quakers/Quakerism and the impact on social change movements. In January we are reading “Hiking Naked – A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance”. For more information, please visit:  ByberryQuakers.org or contact ByberryQuakers@gmail.com https://byberryquakers.org/Groups/341461/Zoom_Book_Club.aspx

Virtual Lecture with Angela Dodgson – “Remember the Ladies: Celebrating those who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box”

Angela P. Dodson’s book “Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box” chronicles the earliest stirrings of the women’s movement in the United States, arising out of the abolition movement, and traces women’s political gains to the present. Her book, published in hardback by Center Street in May 2017, was […]

Children and Families Community Playdate – Meeting for Feelings

PYM Community Playdates are for Children up through 5th Grade and their Family Our January 16 Community Playdate (10:00am) is a “Meeting for Feelings.” We’ll welcome two special guests from New York Yearly Meeting, Joy Meikle and her puppet buddy, Aura, to lead this program. It’s a “safe space for kids to talk about their feelings. […]

First Month Gathering Western Quarterly Meeting

Click here . All portions of the day will have a virtual connection. Morning Program 9:45-10:45 - the 12th Query Witness and Civic Responsibility - an Intergenerational Program led by Claire Brandenburg Taylor Meeting for Worship 11:00 am Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business 2:00-3:30pm Download the FLYER!

Kennett Meeting Friends

Kennett Meeting Friends continues to meet every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm. Next discussion will be Jan 20 to continue with Thomas Kelly's A Testament of Devotion  focusing on the essay "The Simplification of Life" Please join us if you have read the section or just want to explore a little more about Thomas Kelly! […]

ASMH – Updated Exhibit Design Presentations

Join Executive Director Sean Connolly as he talks about the recently completed Exhibit Area Design Plan. Sean will talk through what will be accomplished in each phase of this project and how it will adhere to Quaker principles while adding a sleek new public history approach to engaging with Arch Street Meeting House. Please register […]

Addressing Anti-Blackness Thread Gathering

Addressing Anti-Blackness in and Beyond Monthly Meetings Saturday, January 23rd, 2021, 9:00am – 2:30pm, VIRTUAL Co-hosted with Chestnut Hill Meeting This thread gathering calls us to unlearn and be accountable to our past and present anti-Black ideologies, institutions, and behaviors. Knowing that this journey has no finish line, we bravely and humbly come together to […]

Byberry Quakers – Quakerism 101

Join Byberry and Upper Dublin Friends Meetings in a two-part presentation and discussion about Quakerism.  While it is being called “Quakerism 101” it is definitely not a program only for new Friends and Seekers.  There is much to be learned by those who have been part of the faith for decades, as well. The program […]