Adult Discussion and Study, Events

9/22/2013 at 7 pm – “The New Jim Crow” book discussion organizational meeting

Organizational meeting: Sunday, September 22, 7 p.m.
at a private home in Columbia

Please join us as we read the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. Last year our meeting participated in the “One Book” program sponsored by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism, by reading Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship which covered the history of African-Americans in the Society of Friends. This year the Working Group on Racism is urging us to read the book The New Jim Crow. The topic of this book is particularly applicable to those who are interested in our prison ministry.

“We need to pay attention to Michelle Alexander’s contention that mass imprisonment in the U.S. constitutes a racial caste system. Her analysis reflects the passion of an advocate and the intellect of a scholar.”
—Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project

We will read and discuss this thought-provoking book over several months. Meeting times & places will be discussed at the organizational meeting.

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Adult Discussion and Study, Events

6/30/2013 Noon-Presentation on Friends Peace Team in Indonesia

Bette Rainbow Hoover (Sandy Spring Meeting) will share with us about her recent experiences in Indonesia as part of Friends Peace Team, Asia West Pacific. Friends Peace Team works with people and organizations who desire to live peacefully with their neighbors. Bette spent the month of February with a peace team in Indonesia. She will share photos of Friends in action and stories of peacemaking in the manner of F(f)friends that inspire.

  See FPT-Asia West Pacific for more information.

Finances, Meetings for Listening, Notable Minutes, Process and Policies

Minute on Financial Contributions to Outside Organizations – 6/3/2012

At our meeting for worship with a concern for business held on 6/3/2012, our minutes include an item relating to financial contributions to outside organizations.  This question has come up repeatedly in our meeting and was the subject of several meetings for listening over the years, including:

The relevant minute from 6/3/2012 was:

Bethanne reported that the Peace and Social Concerns (P&SC) committee met and reviewed the outcome of the threshing session on Meeting contributions to outside organizations.  The proposal from the P&SC Committee was read: Continue reading Minute on Financial Contributions to Outside Organizations – 6/3/2012 →

Ministry & Care, Patapsco, Spiritual State

Spiritual State of the Meeting Report – 2012

Approved 6/2/2013

How does the Spirit prosper among us?
The Spirit has been with us as a wise counselor, a loving presence, a prompter of caring actions, and as a weaver and mender of our Quaker community. Spiritual leanings and messages that seemed to transcend all others during the year came from the queries on Caring for One Another, namely:

• In what ways do I show respect for that of God in every person?
• Do I reach out to those in distress? If I find this difficult, what holds me back?
• Am I comfortable making my own needs known to my Meeting? Continue reading Spiritual State of the Meeting Report – 2012 →