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The Elders at Balby for Quakers in 2024

(US/Pacific)

A Weekend with Paul Harris and Bob Runyan

Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, 2024
In person at Ben Lomond Quaker Center in California

Written in 1656, the Epistle of the Elders at Balby, almost 400 years later, this remains one of Friends’ most meaningful and consequential statements, offering advice to Quaker meetings and individuals.

  • How much of it is relevant today?
  • What does it mean, and has its meaning changed?
  • And what would a twenty-first-century version of the Epistle of Balby look like?

Join us in the Santa Cruz Redwoods to consider these questions.

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