Notes from Past Conversation Circles Category

How can Quaker Meetings Support Multi-Faith Families? Sharing Circles

How can Quaker Meetings Support Multi-Faith Families? Sharing Circles

Quaker testimonies call us to respect other faiths and to honor each person’s experience of the Divine. Recognizing our inclusive approach, some families come to Quaker Meeting on the leading of one parent, while another parent or caregiver may adhere to a different faith tradition – or none.

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Conscientious Objection: How can Quaker Meetings support our youth? A Conversation Circle

Conscientious Objection: How can Quaker Meetings support our youth? A Conversation Circle

Support for youth to discern conscientious objection is a vital ministry for Quaker meetings. The teen years are the best time to start documentation for a CO claim in the U.S. because Selective Service registration is required of all 18-year-old males, and perhaps females in the future. Beyond that, the peace testimony is central to Quaker identity, making education about conscientious objection paramount for Quaker teens.

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Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings, Summary

Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings, Summary

During the Christmas season and other holidays, Friends Meetings may celebrate as a way to experience wonder and light, rejoice in intergenerational community, and engage in cultural traditions. At the same time, we are called by the testimony of simplicity that is essential to Quaker faith and practice. We celebrate, in part, for the sake of children in our meeting and recognize that when the adult Friends who curate these celebrations are centered, the spiritual meaning comes through for children.

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Summary: Religious Education (RE) Committees

Summary: Religious Education (RE) Committees

Serving on the religious education committee is a contribution to the meeting, a spiritual practice, a way to be truly present with Friends, and a calling to nurture spiritual growth among Friends of all ages. Join this conversation to share experiences, challenges and practices for Quaker RE committees.

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Conversation Circles: Welcoming Families to Quaker Community

Conversation Circles: Welcoming Families to Quaker Community

Raising children to lead kind, respectful, creative lives is challenging. In today’s fast paced world, it is easy for parents and caregivers to feel buffeted by hurried schedules, multiple demands and our technology-driven culture. Join these conversations to explore how your Meeting can welcome, engage and nurture families.

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Listening Circle: Inviting Children’s Participation in Worship

Listening Circle: Inviting Children’s Participation in Worship

Join these listening circles to explore children’s participation in Quaker Meeting for Worship. These conversations will support a Friend’s seminary research from which will emerge a guide for how to be an intergenerational spiritual community and how to encourage reciprocity across generations.

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Conversation Circles, Faith at Home

Conversation Circles, Faith at Home

Home is the heart of faith formation. Learn about QREC Faith at Home resources to help open us and our children in faithful living. Tuesday, Feb 15 and Thursday, Feb 18

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Conversation Circle

Conversation Circle

This conversation focused on practical experiences, resources and ideas for observing World Quaker Day in religious education programs.

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