What
: a series of 3 talks with opportunities for you to wrestle with the challenges these six speakers pose.
When: 3 Friday evenings at 7:00 PM. Substantial snacks (in lieu of dinner) - 6:30. And coffee after...
Where: At Beacon Hill Friends House. Easy to reach. Click
HERE
for highly reassuring directions.
Why:
BHFH & QSP strive to stimulate searching discussion and learning
among Friends. These talks are offered for free (although a donation
would be a help) and with no advance registration. Just come as you
are.
How
should we as Friends consider economic concerns in Salem Quarter in
2010 and beyond? How can we in one small part of the Quaker world have
an impact (as Friends before have) that reaches far beyond our boundaries?
How do we, in our day, promote values held in clarity by
Friends like Woolman? How can Quakers in New England begin to relate to
and help build a regional economic reality based on our core values?
Six Friends respond...
October 15: Living Our Own Witness....Viv Hawkins & Joanna Hoyt
October 29: Sustainability and Our Work....John Blanchard & Jay O'Hara
November 19: Engaging Our Community....Leslie Manning & Judy Goldberger
The details of place and time are at the right. More about the programs and speakers, below.
October 15: Living Our Own Witness....
Viv and Joanna will speak of how witness shapes their daily limes and
invite us to come and take up the challenge of these queries as they apply in our lives:
What parts of our economic lives are rightly ordered? Which basic
changes are we called to make? Which challenge us? What blocks us from
making these changes? How can we support each other in living with
greater integrity?Viv Hawkins a member of Central Philadelpia Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, led Quaker Studies' Sabbath Jubilee
course last winter and spoke at NEYM this August. Her witness has led
her to India, and to help a third-grade class in Philadelphia. Viv has
completed the School of the Spirit course, The Way of Ministry.She
carries a minute of religious service from Central Philadelphia Monthly
Meeting endorsed by her quarterly and yearly meetings and will be
offering a Quaker Studies Program course on spiritual accountability
beginning January 2011
Joanna Hoyt from New York Yearly Meeting, has led workshops on simplicity at Illinois Yearly Meeting and co-facilitated the core
beliefs retreat for New York Yearly Meeting. She lives, volunteers and
worships at St. Francis Farm a community of prayer, service and simple living in the Catholic Worker tradition.
To go deeper into the issues Viv and Joanna raise, sign up for Moving Toward Economic and Spiritual Integrity a Quaker Studies workshop at Beacon Hill Friends House, Saturday October 16th.
October 29: Sustainability and Our Work....
With Jay and John we will hear about the relationship between our
work and sustainability in environmental and in human terms. Together
we will engage these queries:
How do we view work? Early Friends
were highly respected as they engaged in business. What can we promote
today - worker self management, micro business? Can we pool resources
and start a working model?
Jay O'Hara, a native of
Cape Cod, came to Friends while studying politics at Earlham.
After graduation, Jay pursued peace and justice work for 2 years with
the Friends Committee on National Legislation
then returned to Massachusetts to help build a youth-led
global warming movement. In '08 he helped found Students for a Just
and Stable Future state-wide student climate network, and in '09
initiated Climate Summer, a grassroots organizing
program for college students. Jay serves as Recording Clerk
for West Falmouth Preparative Meeting. He lives on a small organic farm
in his home town of Bourne, where he choses to live without a car.
Near the end of his study in Horticulture at Penn State,
John Blanchard felt led to Methodist service project, a Children's
Home in Georgia, a year at seminary, and then service as an agriculturalist in Sarawak,
Borneo where he found the people really needed economic development
more than training re
crops or livestock. On return to the US, he tried a masters program at
Cornell, then a small business in ME. In September '69, the Blanchards
moved to Framingham & 3 years later John took the
job at AFSC (Cambridge) as Coordinator of Economic Alternatives; that
job ended June 1981, but he's been following economic alternatives ever
since.
November 19: Engaging Our Community....
Leslie
and Judy, from their own experience, will offer exampls of living
toward building the "kin-dom" of heaven. We will share with each other
our attempts to build God's Kin-dom and live into the legacy of our
spiritual ancestors. They provide these queries:
How are Friends crossing borders and
making God's mercy manifest in the world? How are we led, individually
and corporately, to witness to God's justice? How do we overcome the
divisions in our world and in our Society and seek unity in God's love
and vision for our world?
Leslie Manning is a member
of Durham Monthly Meeting (Maine.) She is active on New England Yearly
Meeting Ministry and Counsel. Leslie serves as Friends representative
to the Maine Council of Churches and as regional coordinator for Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Judy Goldberger is a member of Beacon Hill Friends
Meeting and attends the Jamaica Plain Worship Group. From a young age,
she has followed a deepening leading to engage in a variety of urban
concerns. She helped organize the 2007 Salem Quarter Consultation on
Immigration and continues to work with Quakers Concerned with Immigration Justice
to deepen awareness and solidarity in Salem Quarterly Meeting and
beyond. She is indebted to the immigrant families who have welcomed her
into their lives as a doula and maternity nurse.
