Are you concerned about the possibility of further violence in the 2024 United States election cycle? Preventing election violence means cooperating with our fellow Americans. This cooperation is not about political compromise. It’s about learning how to build communities in which we can disagree passionately and earnestly but without encouraging violence. This event will use secular language because...
Join Powell House in the first of three skills workshops co-sponsored by Quaker Leadership Center. This workshop explores how a local worshipping community and an individual Friend might respond together to a call to public ministry. What is a call and what is necessary to be accountable and supported in it? Register for this event
Join us at Earlham School of Religion or online for a brunch & peace presentation, sponsored by the Betty Carter Peace Fund. We will learn from Diana Hadley & David Weatherspoon, gleaning insights on peace leadership from their book The Peace Class: A study of effective cheek-turning, neighbor-loving and sword-to-plowshare conversion. REGISTER HERE More about...
Join Powell House for the second of three skills workshops co-sponsored by Quaker Leadership Center. This workshop will dive deep into material explored in our first workshop with QLC. What is accountability to a call, and how do we actively fulfill this as religious communities? Register for this event
Join us on Friday, October 18th for a day of reflecting on the role of silence in pastoral ministry. Whether programmed or unprogrammed, Quakers have always valued silence as an important means of accessing divine grace and listening to God. Some talk about "centering down" or "communion in the manner of Friends"; programmed Meetings talk...
Join Powell House for the third of three skills workshops co-sponsored by Quaker Leadership Center. Do you feel a call to serve as an elder, or support person, to another's public ministry? Join us for a conversation about lessons learned in serving in this capacity, including how to ask for and offer eldership and negotiate...