October 5th is World Quaker Day, with the theme Love Your Neighbour. Friends World Committee for Consultation, host of the event, has provided a range of materials and ideas to help Friends celebrate the day in style. If your meeting is holding a celebration of some sort, you can register it with FWCC.
Starting in late July, Bill Warters will be hosting a 3-part online book discussion exploring The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution by Rivera Sun. The novel has received rave reviews both for the quality of the writing and for the way it weaves together bits of knowledge about how successful nonviolent movements work. Share this book discussion flyer…
At this year’s June 12-15, 2025 Annual Meeting in Ashland, Friends got actively involved in showing their support for peace, equality and opposition to militarism. Saturday, June 14 was the date of the military parade in Washington, DC, costing taxpayers millions of dollars at the same time as Congress is considering a bill that would eliminate millions of citizens…
This Friday June 13 at 7:30pm we will enjoy a plenary presentation by Pamela Haines, exploring the power of becoming whole. Zoom access to the session is available via leym.org/annual (look for the Green Button). Haines (Central Philadelphia Friends Meeting), a long-time member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Eco-Justice Collaborative, is active in Quaker Earthcare Witness,…
GREEN PASTURES QUARTERLY MEETING will gather this Saturday, May 17, 2025, for worship, a business meeting, and fellowship. Everyone is welcome to attend either in person at Michigan Friends Center or online! Bring your own sack lunch. When: 9:30am – NoonWhere: Michigan Friends Center – 7748 Clark Lake Rd Chelsea, MI 48118 · Zoom participation: https://umich.zoom.us/my/kevinfmiller Schedule:9:30 Coffee,…
Friend Peter Blood-Patterson has been working for over a decade on creating an online Quakerism library, “Inward Light,” where important Quaker writings are being made available freely and easily to Friends everywhere. The project has received significant grants from two funds of New England Yearly Meeting, which are mainly being used to pay assistants to scan documents and upload…
Update: Video Recording of Session Now Available Here LEYM’s Advancement and Outreach presents an opportunity for inter-meeting conversation on Families with Children in our Family of Friends on Tuesday, April 22, from 7:30-8:30pm. Join us to hear how panelists from Athens, Ann Arbor, and Broadmead are part of creating communities that work for parents, children, and everyone. Bring your own…
Greetings Friends,A new issue of the Bulletin has just been released, with paper copies already in the mail. The Spring Issue is chock full of information about our upcoming June 12-15 Annual Meeting, including an overview of the program and our special guests, a rough schedule of events, as well as full descriptions of the workshops on offer…
Note: Session Recordings and Slides available below The rejuvenated Peace and Justice Committee has reached out to LEYM monthly meetings and surveyed the current state of P&J work at the monthly meeting level. Results suggest that it would be a good time to provide support to local meeting efforts to either revive or sustain their P&J work. Situation: Multiple national…
Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting – Winter Gathering, Sat., 3/15 Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will have its Winter Gathering on Saturday, March 15, 2025, beginning at 9 am. This will be a virtual event – see the Zoom link is at the end of this post. More information will be forthcoming, but here is a preview of the morning’s activities: 1) …
