by Diane Bowden | Jan 5, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education
This coming Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 9:30 am in the Community Room
Please join us for this important session on Earthcare Witness.
Barb Adams is our Meeting’s representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness, and in this session she will help us explore our intimate relationship with the earth. Through interactive experiences, personal discussion, and sharing, we will examine our emotional connection to our planet and the larger cosmos. Barb will guide us in using our own experiences of nature to understand the vital importance of living within the earth’s carrying capacity. Barb will bring some essence of Joanna Macy’s teachings from her presentations at this year’s Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology.
by Diane Bowden | Dec 14, 2016 | Committees
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Welcoming and Growing Our Meeting is offering a workshop called, “The Quaker Practice of Spiritual Hospitality: Nurturing a Welcoming Meeting”. This workshop invites all of us to consider how welcoming is rooted in Quaker spirituality. It’s something that stretches our hearts, whether we’re introverts or extraverts. During the workshop we will share how we have felt welcomed in our lives and what kept us coming back to Meeting. We’ll brainstorm on how Richmond Friends Meeting can be more welcoming to all. We want everybody to come to this, old timers as well as new attenders. Let’s hear from the whole range of perspectives!! Contact Monica Shaw if you have questions, monicashaw@dmshaw.com.
This happens Sunday, February 12 at 9:30am in the Community Room.
by Diane Bowden | Nov 29, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education, Peace and Social Concerns
The Friends Committee on National Legislation is now registering for their next Spring Lobby Weekend to be held March 18-21, 2017. The topic will be “Dismantling Income Inequality.”
The program is basically three days of workshops and one day of lobbying, urging members of Congress to:
Support a jobs program for the 21st Century
Modernize our unemployment system for today’s workforce
Stop taxing single people and people under 25 into poverty
For full information and to register, go to fcnl.org … Click on “Action & Events” then “Events” then “Spring Lobby Weekend.”
Registration is only $50, an inexpensive lodging may be available at the hostel, but that may be already fully booked. The RFM Adult Spiritual Education Committee encourages participation, particularly by younger Quakers, and will provide scholarships to this event, up to $400 per person, available to members and attenders of our meeting age 40 and under.
by Diane Bowden | Nov 10, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education
Sunday, November 13, 9:30 am
The Chrysalis Institute’s Spiritual Paths Program
Presenters: Michael Pierce and Mary Fran Hughes-McIntyre will discuss their experiences in the Chrysalis Institute’s inaugural Spiritual Paths program; Elaine Kiziah, Ph. D. a faculty member in the upcoming program, will also join us and lead an experiential exercise; other faculty and staff from the program will be in attendance and available to answer questions.
Sunday, November 27, 9:30 am
Living the Quaker Life: Quakers and Christmas
Presenters: Barbara Myers and Howard Garner will facilitate a discussion of Quaker values and the biggest national holiday of the year. Participants will be have the opportunity to explore their own family traditions and to share how their Quaker values are lived during this season of the year.