by | 3, Aug, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
Ed began his talk by referring to an article in the Economist about why bother baking bread at home? The head of an industrial bakery wrote an OpEd letter about baking bread in pandemic times. He praised it as as a social use of time, and an education; home...
by | 3, Aug, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
1 July 2020 – Our conversation was a free flowing one centered on developing ideas around the definition of “work” and specifically, of “useful work.” Key ideas that emerged around the definition of work are: working = living The human is...
by | 3, Aug, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
In July during our Wednesday sessions, we considered the query of the month Do you respect the value of all useful work, whether paid or unpaid, whether physical or intellectual, whether performed in the home or in the larger community? Respectons-nous le valeur de...
by | 5, Jun, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
Resources and background materials This list of resources was compiled over the month of June 2020 when we focused our sessions on racism, Quakers and race, and white privilege. Geneva MM Spiritual Deepening sessions for the month of June 2020 will take place in...
by | 8, Apr, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
We received this message via a Geneva Friend who is a member of meeting in Australia. Victoria Regional Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, Quakers Our Testimony of Community in the Time of a Pandemic In 1667 during the Great Plague, Isaac Penington wrote to the...
by | 14, Mar, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening
It began with a Swedish 9th grader Greta Thunberg in August 2018 and as of tomorrow on the 15 March 2019 Earth Strike will count tens of thousands of school children supported by some of the world’s biggest environmental groups demanding that governments reduce...