May 13, 2024, 4:30 PM - July 18, 2024, 4:30 PM US/Pacific
Practice & Discussion Group with Nadine Hoover and Beth Collea
Individualism is perhaps the greatest challenge to the communal practice of Quakerism. In this next series of three explorations around Walking in the World as a Friend: Essential Quaker Practices, we'll investigate how our view of the minister, steward and witness shifts when viewed through the lens of community—not what I can do alone, but what we can do together. The whole Quaker ecology connects strong, independent, self-reliant individuals in the communal practices of worship, discernment, and action.
One lens we will add is “Lessons from Thriving Meetings” a short piece written by Beth Collea in 2018. She found that a first small sample of vibrant meetings effectively kept individualism in its place when a robust community of elders combined with wholeness in community.
Please join us for this free Online Practice & Discussion Group. We meet monthly to enrich adult Quaker Religious Education for ourselves and our meetings/churches.
Each month will open with worship and a message from the book Walking in the World as a Friend: Essential Quaker Practices and “Lessons from Thriving Meetings”.
We'll break into small groups for deeper reflection and then return to the large group to hold and explore together any questions, reflections, or implications for us as Friends, and close with worship. We may discuss practices, such as journaling, spiritual companions, and faith and practice or scripture study, that help us and our meetings/churches.
Monday, May 13, 2024
1:30 PM Hawaii = 4:30 PM Pacific = 5:30 PM Mountain
Experiences of the Living Spirit as Ministers
(pp 49-53; also pp 16-17 & 27-30 or relevant videos)
Monday, June 10, 2024
1:30 PM Hawaii = 4:30 PM Pacific = 5:30 PM Mountain
Experiment with Spirit as Stewards
(pp 54-59; also 17-18 & 35-37 or relevant videos)
Monday, July 8, 2024
1:30 PM Hawaii = 4:30 PM Pacific = 5:30 PM Mountain
New Testimony as Witnesses
(pp 58-61; also 45-58 & 66 or relevant videos)
This is a spiral curriculum. Every time we engage the themes, we bring more to the reflections and go deeper.
Resources for these workshops:
Click here for the videos.
Click here to purchase the book, Walking in the World as a Friend.
Click here for a free PDF of Walking in the World as a Friend.
Click here for the article, “Lessons from Thriving Meetings.”