by WebPost | May 1, 2015 | Adult Spiritual Education, Topics, Worship
May 18 at 7:30-8:30 PM in the Meetinghouse Chanting is a way of centering into awareness of Spirit. We sing short songs out of the silence, and repeat them until the sense of the group ends the chant. Friends will gather into silence in the mode of worship...
by WebPost | Apr 24, 2015 | Minutes of Business Meeting
Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Fifty-four (54) members and attenders were present. Clarisse Harton was greeter. Julia Hebner from Ministry and Worship sat on the facing bench to hold Meeting in the Light. Nick Martina read the Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM)...
by WebPost | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Social Concerns
April 19, 2015 Starting in February, 2014, the Adult Spiritual Education and Peace and Social Concerns committees of Richmond Friends Meeting began a series of sessions to read and discuss The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, and to feature guest speakers on the...
by WebPost | Apr 24, 2015 | Topics
The applicant submits a letter of intent to the Clerk of Meeting. It is suggested that the applicant become familiar with BYM Faith and Practice and Friends for 300 Years if they have not already done so. The Clerk then submits the letter to Care and Counsel and a...
by WebPost | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Social Concerns, Topics, Writings - Quaker Bibliography
“The Hero’s Fight: African-Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State,” by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, was published Feb. 1, 2014, by Princeton University Press. See http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10328.html#.VPHv1BBwbLw.gmail. If you click on the link,...