May 6 at 7:15pm at 129 Dagmar
Month: April 2017
Change of Venue for April 30, 217
This week only (April 30th, 2017) we will be meeting for worship at the Westminster Housing Co-op on 145 Maryland st. at 11am Check Google maps or other source for directions.
Share the Gifts; Honour the Treaties
Folks are meeting to discuss ways forward in righting the economic injustice that is rooted in our colonial past. You can attend by telling the organizers that you want to. https://www.facebook.com/events/1695761537387782/
The Amazing Fact of Quaker Worship
A brief reflection by meeting member, Glenn Morison. Gorman, George H. The Amazing Fact of Quaker Worship, London: Quaker Books. 1973 Content George Gorman was born in 1916 and passed away in 1982. He became a Quaker as a teenager and one of the most respected Quaker writers of his century. The book is the publication of his Swarthmore Lecture Series in 1973. There are no definitive Quaker statements but this book would be as close to that as it is possible to come. The intriguing title is explained as referring to the “fact” that something so simple as a group of people sitting quietly in a circle has proven to be something amazing for so many people over such a long time. The book is both descriptive and prescriptive, although the style is very gentle offering suggestions and invitations rather than rules or constraints. The book also weaves history, current practice and reflection in way than you are never far from each source of understanding. It is both very practical including such details as what you can expect people to wear but hardly pedantic as it takes on such questions such as devoting an entire chapter to the question, […]
Parole
The Canadian Friends Service Committee is seeking to educate and activate people about parole. Here is a brief primer. Parole, Rehabilitation and Community Safety