by WebPost | Feb 11, 2025 | Current, History - RFM, Minuted Decisions, Race & Racism ad hoc
Summary of Recommended Actions for Richmond Friends Meeting 2025 and 2026 Form a three-person Race and Racial Justice Team, whose members will serve two-year terms, under the care of the Clerk of Meeting. Reparations to Indigenous peoples – Form a short-term ad hoc...
by WebPost | May 20, 2024 | Current, Gaza, Israel, Minuted Decisions, Peace and Social Concerns
We, the members of the Richmond (VA) Friends Meeting are heartbroken and stricken with horror and grief at the recent renewed eruption of violence in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. We call for an immediate ceasefire by both Israel and Hamas, the prompt release...
by WebPost | May 19, 2024 | African American heritage, Announcement, Business Meeting, Minuted Decisions, Richmond Community Hospital, Social justice
Richmond Friends Meeting recognizes that inequality and injustice on race are deeply rooted in our society. Our faith community continues to deliberatively examine this cruel history and to face the on-going realities of systemic racism. We are committed to work with...
by WebPost | Feb 21, 2024 | Minuted Decisions
By Margaret Edds Bette Diebold Gilchrist, a plain-spoken Midwesterner by birth, an intellectually curious biologist by profession, and a lifelong seeker after truth, died on May 5, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia. A member of the Richmond Friends Meeting since January 20,...
by WebPost | Feb 21, 2024 | Current, Minuted Decisions
(Final version, revised 28 January 2024) As Friends, our belief that there is “that of God” in everyone grounds our practice of upholding the worth of each human being. Each person is guided by an Inward Teacher toward truth; each has the capacity to experience and be...
by WebPost | Dec 17, 2014 | Adult Spiritual Education, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Minuted Decisions, Worship
Editor’s Note: The following report was accepted at business meeting on 16 November, 2014. Following 2013 Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) annual session, Richmond Friends Meeting (RFM) learned that the BYM Faith & Practice draft was not approved and the committee...
