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Quaker meeting and Creative conversation Thursday 6th November – “Hope and expectation in the life of a nontheist.”

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Dear Friends,

Please join us on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 7PM BST/2PM EDT for our next conversation.  We will be exploring the question, “Hope and expectation in the life of a nontheist.”  We look forward to a lively conversation and hope that you will come and add your voice.

We welcome your thoughts about how to make these conversations more meaningful.  Address your comments to the working group at nontheistfriend@gmail.com.

Please email clerk@nontheist-quakers.org.uk to register if you have not already done so.
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to this email address:  nontheistfriend@gmail.com

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m

In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, Al Palmer, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK

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QM + Creative conversation Thursday 4 September – Are nontheists irrelevant?

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Dear Friends,

Welcome back to our Creative Conversations. We hope summer treated you well!

Please join us on Thursday 4 September at 7PM BST/2PM EDT for our next QM+CC.  Tim Regan and Al Palmer will share their thoughts on, “Are nontheists irrelevant?”

NOTE: Please use the new Zoom link for this season of our QM+CC. As a friendly reminder, we will resend the Zoom link to registered participants only, the day of the Meeting.

Please email clerk@nontheist-quakers.org.uk to register if you have not already done so.
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to this email address:  nontheistfriend@gmail.com

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m

We look forward to seeing you soon!

In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, Al Palmer, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK

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Nontheist religious experience and updates to this NFN website.

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I apolgise for my delay in updating.

Jim Cain has kindly shared texts with 3 slightly different versions of his presentation of 5 June on Nontheist religious experience in PDF, Word and powerpoint formats.

By scrolling through our Events page, and following links there, it is possible to find details of our past events for some years (2017-2025) and in some cases texts for earlier talks or audio recordings of the first 11 talks in 2021-22. There is still a gap in this record between Nov 2023 and Sept 2024 and I will try to get this filled in in coming weeks.

Our Articles and Newsletters page takes you back to NFN events as far as 2012.

Trevor

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QM + Creative conversation Thursday 5 June 2025 – Nontheist Religious Experience

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A friendly reminder!

-your QM+CC WG

We welcome you to join us on Thursday 5 June at 7PM BST/2PM EDT for our next QM+CC.  Jim Cain will share his thoughts on “The Nontheist Religious Experience”.

Jim has kindly shared texts with 3 slightly different versions of his presentation in PDF, Word and powerpoint formats.

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to nontheist friend <nontheistfriend@gmail.com>

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QM+Creative Conversation Thursday 1 May 2025 – 7 Types of Atheism

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Dear Friends,
Many thanks to William Purser for sharing his thoughts on HOPE and inspiring our creative conversation in April.

We welcome you to join us on Thursday 1 May at 7PM BST/2PM EDT for our next QM+CC.  Catherine Carr will share her thoughts on Seven Types of Atheism.
 
Please note this will be our last QM+CC for the season as we do not have a speaker for June and we take a summer holiday for July and August.  We will resume on 4 September.
 As a friendly reminder, we will resend the Zoom to registered participants only, the day of the Meeting.
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to this email address.

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m

We look forward to seeing you soon!
In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, Al Palmer, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK
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Text for MfW 2 January 2025 (Mattias Karlsson’s talk on nontheism)

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We have now added the text Mattias has sent us for his talk to the website here: nontheism-mattias

Thank-you Mattias for a very interesting presentation with so many definitions and interpretations of nontheism to consider which prompted so much sharing by a very well attended meeting.

General Quaker interest, MfW+Creative Conversation, NFN Events, Non-theism

MfW +Creative Conversation – Thursday 2nd January 2025

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Dear Friends,

Many thanks to Geoff Tansey for sharing about his extensive work and dedication to peace and specifically to the Quaker Peace Studies Trust.  This encouraged deep reflection and searching amongst participants.

We welcome you to join us on Thursday 2 January at 7PM GMT/2PM EST for our next QM+CC with presenter Mattias Karlsson. He will share his thoughts on nontheism.
A text for Mattias’ presentation (pdf) can be found here: nontheism-mattias.
 
NOTE: We are experimenting with a reoccurring Zoom link.  Please save the Zoom link sent to you as it will work for this season’s QM+CC through June 2025.
As a friendly reminder, we will resend the Zoom to registered participants only, the day of the Meeting.
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to this email address.

(We don’t publish the zoom link on the website. If you have not previously registered, Please email clerk@nontheist-quakers.org.uk to register.)

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m

We look forward to seeing you soon!
In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, Al Palmer, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK
General Quaker interest, MfW+Creative Conversation, NFN Events, Non-theism

QM + creative conversation – All Truth is a Shadow – Thur 3rd October with Jan Arriens

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Dear Friends,

Many thanks to the 65 or so participants who joined us for our first Quaker Meeting and Creative Conversation of this season on 5th September.  It was lovely to see new and familiar faces!
We welcome you to join us on Thursday 3 October at 7PM BST/2PM EDT for our next QM+CC with presenter, Jan Arriens who will share his thoughts on All Truth is a Shadow. 
 
NOTE: We are experimenting with a reoccurring Zoom link.  Please save the Zoom link received as it will work for this season’s QM+CC through June 2025.
As a friendly reminder, we will resend the Zoom to registered participants only, the day of the Meeting.
You may unregister/unsubscribe from our monthly Meetings or NFN communication at any time by replying to this email address.

(We don’t publish the zoom link on the website. If you have not previously registered, Please email clerk@nontheist-quakers.org.uk to register.)

The evening’s plan is as follows:
• Zoom Room opens at 6:45PM (UK time), please arrive early.
• 7PM: Welcome and Quaker Meeting (~20 minutes): Sharing silence with one another for quietly gathering ourselves and connecting.
• Creative Conversation and Discussion (~1 hour): Concern introduced; followed by interactive discussions.
• 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:00m
We look forward to seeing you soon!

In Friendship,
The QM+CC Working group (Gisela Creed, John Senior, William Purser, and Kiera Faber)
Nontheist Friends Network, UK

General Quaker interest, MfW+Creative Conversation, Non-theism

John Senior’s Spiritual Journey

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NFN Friends may like to know that our very own (may I say that?) John Senior will be speaking to the Quaker Universalist Group next Wednesday about his spiritual journey (on zoom).

If you would like to be there, please register there:
‘Our (QUG) next meeting for worship and sharing is on Wednesday May 15th at 7.00 p.m. It will be introduced by John Senior who will be talking about his spiritual journey. John uses a variety of words to describe his journey, including Buddhist, Quaker, Nontheist and Universalist. A reminder and joining instructions will be sent out two or three days before the meeting.’  If you do not have the joining instructions and would like them please send an email to contact@qug.org.uk

https://qug.org.uk/

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NTF Meeting tonight and QUG Meeting tomorrow

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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).