Quakers and Slavery in the Seventeenth Century CHS 104 Chase Auditorium 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA 19041 Contact: Susan Penn spenn@haverford.edu   Haverford College’s distinguished visitor Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota will be giving a talk about her research on Quakers and slavery. Eighteenth-century Quakers were leaders of the abolitionist movement, but […]

Come for Fellowship and Fun! Game Night at Kennett Friends Meeting

This program is an experiment, speaking to the interest in service and witness expressed by Young Friends last spring at Continuing Sessions. YSOP is an amazing organization! Learn more about them at www.ysop.org. – The cost is the same as other Young Friends weekends, thanks to support for the Youth Programs in the PYM budget. Scholarship is […]

Valentine’s Day Party and Open House Featuring:                A Concert by our Friends Home Choir Come enjoy a nostalgic trip through the years as our residents present songs about love: Perfect theme for a Valentine’s Day weekend. Saturday, February 15th 1 – 4 (Concert at 2 p.m. in Friends Home […]

Please join us for Continuing Sessions at Westtown School! We will highlight the work and witness of collaboratives, worship together, be in community with one another, youth programs and YAFs, and do the business of the yearly meeting together. We welcome all to join us! Registration will be up soon. Click here for the PYM […]

Institutional Assessment on Institutional Racism Presented by Vanessa Juyle, The Institutional Assessment is a direct response to the events at the 2016 Gathering that encapsulates the long history of lived experience of People of Color of systemic racism among Friends. A similar assessment focused on Indigenous Peoples, classism, ageism, and disability is encouraged in the […]

Workshops Arlene Kelly of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM) will lead a workshop on the important function of Nominating Committees. Steven Davison also of CPMM will lead a workshop on the the sense of the meeting — what it is, what it means, and how we experience it. Kri Burkander of Princeton Meeting and Jim […]

Climate Crisis: Why Friends Care, What We Can Do Liz Robinson, Burt Dallas, Paula Kline and Ruth Darlington, with PYM’s Eco-Justice Collaborative, will address actions at the national, state, local, and person levels to lower carbon emissions and other efforts to address the Climate Crisis. This follows Haddonfield Quarter’s worship, annual business meeting, and lunch. […]

Are there Quakers in South Africa? How and when did they get there? What roles did they play before, during, and after apartheid? How do South African Quakers address issues of race, position, and power both within the Religious Society and the larger culture today? Come hear stories, ask questions, and share thoughts with Nozizwe […]