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Current Programs...
Online courses this winter bring Quaker Studies to you, wherever you are...
Reading Early Friends
a 3 course series, running from January to April
Early Friends wrote for the ear to listen to as much as for the eye to
see. So this series will offer you the opportunity to hear these words
that were first heard in the 17th century, read out loud. Long involved
sentences and vivid images will come alive. The concepts may still pose
steep challenges (they always have) but the words on the page won't get
in your way.Each course will include background material as well as
several readings. You'll contribute your reactions to the readings and
your responses to queries and tasks posed by Eric, Frederick and Brian.
Margaret Fell and George Fox with Eric Edwards
(Registration for this course is closed)
4 weeks, January 14 through February 10
Francis Howgill with Frederick Martin
(Registration for this course is closed)
4 weeks, February 11 through March 10
Mary and Isaac Penington with Brian Drayton
(Registration for this course is closed)
5 weeks, March 10 through April 13
The "Reading Early Friends" series is sponsored by the Ministry &
Counsel Committee of New England Yearly Meeting. Sign up for any one of
the courses in this series or for all 3 (and get a discount!)
In this course you will encounter a new approach to Paul's letter to
the Romans. Over the last 30-40 years, new scholarship has led to a
re-evaluation of Romans. It has sought to understand Paul in his own
context, rather than through layers of Christian history, and is far
less about individual salvation and the condemnation of Judaism.
Instead, Romans develops a theology that explains God’s fairness and
loving desire to extend God’s promises beyond the Jews to include all
the nations. In light of this, the course will offer you opportunity to
explore your own response to the understanding of God’s universal
salvation Paul expresses in this letter.
Starting with a gathering, continuing online, a hybrid course...
Spiritual Rhythms, Sacred Time:
A Journey Through Lent using the Common Lectionary
with Therese Miller
workshops: Boston area - February 17 (6:30 - 9 pm) & 18 (9:00 - 3:30)
Philadelphia area - February 10 (6:30 - 9:00) & 11 (9:00 - 3:30)
Online: 7 weeks - February 22 - April 10
The Common Lectionary is a set of weekly Bible readings related to
each other and to the season. Therese Miller brings creative gifts and
life experience grounding activism in well-founded spiritual practice to
this exploration of using these readings as the scaffolding on which to
build the daily practice so many of us yearn for.
In and near Boston, this winter...
Goodness
with John Calvi
a 1 day Workshop at Wellesley Friends Meeting
Saturday February 4, 9:30 - 3:30
This day will include
simple energy work for healing, a life chart to explore lessons thus
far, and deep relaxation for cleansing. That's how we will deepen our understanding of the self for deeper
spiritual life by using wonder and deep relaxation. Gathering the sense of
our own goodness is key to deeper spiritual life. The growing of gifts,
sensing a call, making compassion pragmatic- all shine more brightly
with a clearer sense of our goodness and how we are aspects of the
Divine, the fingers and breath of the Light.
Let’s explore
Our Theologies
and see if they’re Quaker
with Beckey Phipps
a 4 week course at Friends Meeting at Cambridge
Sundays, February 26, March 4, 11, 18 - 6:15 PM to 8:30 PM
Starting
with an opportunity to unpack key theological premises on which Quaker
faith & practice are based, we’ll delve into our own spiritual
experiences and theological questions as contemporary Friends. Do we
know what we want from our Quaker lives? Come and share with others your
most profound questions and deepest wondering. Our hope is to taste
grace and freedom together.
