Dear Friend,
We hope this note finds you well. Many thanks to Elaine Green for sharing in February. We were grateful for the conversation and introspection.
We hope you will join us for our next Quaker Meeting and Creative Conversation in March.
7 March QM+CC at 7PM GMT/2PM EST by Zoom, will introduce the concern, See heaven in a grain of sand, by Rosemary Kirk.
General format:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM UK time, please arrive early.
• 7PM UK time: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Different participants will introduce a thought provoking, occasionally debatable question, brief statement, and/or reading. This will be followed by an inspired discussion amongst all participants for creative exchanges and opportunities to disagree.
• Conclusion: Thoughts and a few moments to share silence.
• After Announcements the Zoom Room will remain open for friendly chats and community.
• Duration:1hr:30m-2hr:00mAdditional information about our QM+CC can be found on our website.If you are interested in attending and have not registered for our Creative Conversations, please email as below.
If you previously registered, there is no need to re-register, you are on the list. You will automatically receive Zoom links to this and subsequent Meetings, approximately one week before each Meeting and a reminder the day of. We ask that you please do not share the Zoom link with interested Friends, but encourage them to email the Clerk (clerk@nontheist-quakers.org.uk) to register. You may unregister/unsubscribe at any time by replying to this email address.
In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK
Very short notice but NFN Friends might be interested in the North American Nontheist Friends session at 4pm EST today (9pm GMT I think):
Hope you can join us, Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 4:00 Eastern Standard Time for our contemplative sharing session. Our hope is that James Riemermann will be with us to talk about his chapter “Mystery: It’s What We Don’t Know” in Godless for God’s Sake.
(“Nontheist Friends (Quakers)” <nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com> or email Ann Sidone <annsidone1@gmail.com> for the link).
Tomorrow night at 7pm, the Quaker Universalist Group (QUG UK) are meeting to listen to a talk from Lee Drummond about Animism and an earth-based spirituality.
https://qug.org.uk/diary/?event_id1=4033
Details of our own meeting at 7pm on Thursday 7th March to follow soon (if you’re signed up, you’ve already had the email).
Have just come across (via twitter) the ‘RE podcast’ by Louisa Jane Smith where the latest episode (9 February) is entitled ‘The One about Quakerism’ and has Matthew Guest a Quaker and academic theologian at Durham University introducing Quakerism to students and RE teachers. I don’t know but believe Friends will be able to listen to this (51 minutes) at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-re-podcast/id1534213872 or by searching on any podcast service.
Most of it will be nothing new for most Friends but I thought Matthew offers an interesting, largely ‘universalist’ emphasis with explicit reference to evangelical, atheist and nontheist Quakers.
(The previous episode of the podcast was ‘The One about the Vedas’ which Friends might also find interesting).
Website and blog of the Nontheist Friends Network
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