Join us on Zoom for our next Author Talk, featuring Howard Macy! We will discuss his spiritual journey among Friends and his insights into the biblical prophets found in his book Befriending the Prophets. Perhaps the prophets can provide timely wisdom for how to live and lead prophetically in a highly-politicized season. Register for Author...
Melinda Wenner Bradley and Beth Collea from Quaker Religious Education Collaborative will facilitate this consultation. This gathering is for Friends who are parenting, grandparenting, holding care for ministry or pastoral care in their church/meeting, and anyone curious to explore being "all together." Why is intergenerational community good for all of us, at any age? Why...
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
In 2010, Bolivian Quaker Magaly Quispe started offering Alternatives to Violence workshops in one Bolivian prison. AVP-Bolivia has now reached 21 prisons - and every department in Bolivia. Come hear about Magaly's work for peace and how it has expanded to anti-domestic violence work, as well as a "study home" -- a residence for rural students who...
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...
We will talk with Richard Foster about his journey among Friends and with his best-selling book Celebration of Discipline. We will also talk with Mimi Dixon about her recently published book Worth Celebrating about the impact of Celebration. Join us for this generative conversation! REGISTER HERE Bios Richard J. Foster is the innovative pioneer who...
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...
Join us for a new trustees training series with new topics. We will gather on Zoom monthly on the third Thursday of January through May, 2025. Emily Provance will facilitate the series but each session will have a different guest speaker. For our January training, we will discuss how to create and use a narrative...
What Would Martin Luther King Do Now'? by Rev. Robert 'Bob' Hunter Free admission - Registration is Required. Please join us for the 2025 MLK Jr. Day celebrations with a public lecture, ' What Would Martin Luther King Do Now'? by Rev. Robert 'Bob' Hunter. Before retirement in 2014, Rev. Bob Hunter was a Diversity and Justice specialist for...
Join us for a new trustees training series with new topics. We will gather on Zoom monthly on the third Thursday of January through May, 2025. Emily Provance will facilitate the series but each session will have a different guest speaker. For our February training, we will discuss how to divide up responsibilities and practice...
Professor Esther Mombo teaches at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya, where she has served for fourteen years in senior management positions of Academic dean and Deputy Vice-chancellor of Academic Affairs (DVCAA) Director at St. Paul’s Lifelong Learning Institute, Director of International Partnerships and Alumni Relations. Her research and teaching interests span the fields of...