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SUMMARY:Caln Quarter Membership Development Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Vitality\n Saturday\, April 10 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.\n\nWe will bring three topics to the table.\n\n\nCommunity-building\, including the role of the old reliable pot-luck\n\n\nManaging dissension\, the major reason why religious organizations lose congregants\n\n\nChecking the pulse of our spiritual vitality\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here:\nhttps://calnquarterlymeeting.ticketspice.com/caln-quarterly-meeting-membership-development-series-part-6\nRegistration is free. The donation is optional. To register only\, fill in your ticket information then scroll down past the donation and billing sections to the SUBMIT button below.\nOnce you have registered\, you can expect an email with the Zoom link on Friday night and again on Saturday morning.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/caln-quarter-membership-development-series/
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Ending Gun Violence
DESCRIPTION:The annual workshop of the Legislative Policy Collaborative of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting will be a virtual event\,  featuring a keynote address by\nPeter Murchison\, a member of Wilton Friends Meeting (CT)\nwhose nephew was one of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School eight years ago.\nThere will also be a panel discussion of local activists on gun control\, breakout rooms to share ideas and lobby training by a staff member of the\nFriends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL).\nJoin us for this exciting and timely event!\nRegister here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pathways-to-ending-gun-violence/
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SUMMARY:By and For Young Friends - Living Authentically
DESCRIPTION:https://pendlehill.org/events/living-authentically-finding-your-space-in-the-world-by-exploring-your-values/
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/by-and-for-young-friends-living-authentically/
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SUMMARY:Recording Clerk Workshop with Jim Herr
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\nZoom Pre- Registration is required.\nThis 2-hour interactive discussion format workshop is open to f/Friends in the Philadelphia Quarter and across the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting – all levels of experience are welcome.\nAre you intimidated by what seems to be a daunting task? Do you want a re-fresher? Get ready to be inspired.\nJim Herr brings his love of being a recording clerk and years of spiritual and practical experience to interactive training on an essential practice of our faith*.  Jim currently serves as a recording clerk for PYM and the clerk of Caln Quarterly Meeting. He is a member of Lancaster Monthly Meeting and recently retired administrator of the School of the Spirit Ministry.\nThe Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (PQM) is sponsoring this “PQM Presents” workshop with the goal of supporting the work of its constituent Quaker meetings by sharing best practices\, lifting up ministries and nurturing Quaker connections across the quarter.\nFor resources advanced documents and resources – Visit the event page on PhiladelphiaQuarter.org: https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/philadelphia-quarterly-meeting/events/recording-clerk-workshop-jim-herr-april-17-2021
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/recording-clerk-workshop-with-jim-herr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T090000
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SUMMARY:All Ages Program
DESCRIPTION:Join Claire\, our Youth Coordinator\, for an All Ages Program\nprior to worship at our April Gathering.\nClick here for the flyer.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/all-ages-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T190000
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SUMMARY:A Clean Energy Future: How We Get there at the Local Level
DESCRIPTION:Ready for 100 invites local governments to lead the way to a transition away from dirty fuels like coal and fracked gas to 100% clean energy sources like solar and wind.  We are asking Supervisors\, Councilors\, Mayors\, CEOs\, religious leaders\, principals\, college presidents\, civic and community leaders\, parents\, and students to commit to solutions that help us achieve 100% clean\, just\, and renewable energy for all. Register here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/a-clean-energy-future-how-we-get-there-at-the-local-level/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T190000
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SUMMARY:Kennett Friends Spirituality Group
DESCRIPTION:The spirituality Group continues to meet every 3rd Wednesday evening at 7:00. On this Wednesday April 21\, Annmarie Carr will lead us in a discussion about the Byzantine way of illuminating manuscripts!\n Please join\, all are welcome! –\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739314909?pwd=QnJmUWxWQ2ZPVzRkQ3M2YklDRWp2QT09\nMeeting ID: 867 3931 4909   Passcode: 391875\nWe looked last month at several of the great Irish illuminated manuscripts\, and marveled at the intricacy of their interlace ornament. \nWriting and ornament together form an abstract unity\, as if demonstrating the immense complexity and vitality that reside within the very words of Scripture. In some ways the Byzantine way of illuminating manuscripts is the converse of the Irish. It\, too\, fairly pulsates with the energy of the word\, but it focuses emphatically on the human figure\, and its interest is in bringing to life the relational experience of words spoken and heard as they are exchanged among people. \nWhat we call Byzantium called itself the Empire of the Romans. It was the Roman Empire as it continued for eleven centuries after the translation of its capital by the emperor Constantine from Rome to Constantine’s city— Constantinople—in 330 CE. It was a Christian state; its Church\, centered in Constantinople\, is the basis of what we now know as the Orthodox Church. By the 6 th century\, the Empire’s language had become Greek and remained so to the end in 1453. Johannes Gutenberg began his Bible project in 1452; the Empire fell in 1453. Thus Byzantium was throughout its history a pre-print culture. Books were labor-intensive and expensive\, and painted adornment even more so. \nNonetheless\, among medieval societies\, Byzantium was a comparatively literate one. Church\, army\, and imperial administration all operated at a high level of literacy\, and its major cities were entrepots of far-flung international trade networks\, demanding numeracy and basic literacy. We continue to be astonished by the large number and wide distribution of the small lead seals that were used in Byzantium to seal letters—they appear in archaeological sites all over the empire; and we know of laypeople as well as clergy and monks who accumulated libraries and prized books. \nAccordingly\, along with books designed to serve large communities\, Byzantium stands out in the Middle Ages for the number of books\, including illuminated ones\, that were made for individual\, personal use. \nThey are overwhelmingly religious\, and their illuminations emphasize figures whom we Quakers by and large do our best to avoid—Jesus Christ\, the Mother of God\, and major saints. But I think there is an aspect of the Byzantine images that can be of interest to us Friends in the light of our faith in the priesthood of all believers. This is the degree to which Byzantine imagery is rarely just ministry; it is a means of building an experiential bond between the individual reader and the divine. The Orthodox Church is great in its contemplative mystics\, and the faith in the experiential immediacy of humans’ relationship to the divine shaped the way the holy was expressed in art.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/kennett-friends-spirituality-group-2/
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SUMMARY:Let’s Talk About Deep Delta Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee as we read and discuss our member Matthew van Meter’s book about life\, politics and civil rights in the 1960s – and the landmark civil rights decision of Duncan v. Louisiana. Matthew\, a journalist and activist (Shakespeare in Prison)\, did extensive research to create an account of “how grassroots heroism can topple even one of segregation’s most fearsome tyrants.” The book is available through Pendle Hill and numerous other outlets. Click here to join the discussion\, or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 873 3565 8140. And save the date: Matthew joins us Thursday\, May 13\, at 7:30pm\, to discuss his work.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/lets-talk-about-deep-delta-justice/
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SUMMARY:"Camp" Weekend for Youth and Families
DESCRIPTION:All PYM youth and families are invited to join the Youth Programs staff for a weekend of activities that will center fellowship\, fun\, and a “camp vibe.”\nMSF and Young Friends cannot be together at Camp Swatara with our Caln Quarter Friends this year\, and our Spring Family Overnight won’t be at Camp Dark Waters this spring\, but we can be ALL together in spirit and on Zoom!\nThe schedule for the weekend includes programs for all ages — More information below and the registration form. We will look forward to resuming our in-person camping weekends in 2022!\nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/camp-weekend-for-youth-and-families/
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