by Sita Diehl | January 8, 2019 | Children's Religious Education, Young Adult Friends, Youth Education
This is a growing list of resources for exploring racism and racial justice with young Friends. The document begins with queries to frame the task. The list includes websites, blogs, online articles, curricula and children’s literature. Queries: How...
by Sita Diehl | December 14, 2018 | Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Small Meetings, Youth Education
In 1663, when all adults from Reading Friends Meeting were imprisoned for their faith, the children of the Meeting continued worship in the manner of Friends. This legend of Quaker Faith and Practice illustrates integrity, courage and non-violent resistance in the...
by Sita Diehl | November 30, 2018 | Adult Religious Education, Children's Religious Education, Youth Education
Three Christmas holiday traditions at Birmingham Friends Meeting (West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA) are described in the attached document: 1. The Giving Tree, a service project of the Birmingham Meeting Youth Committee in collaboration with a local homeless shelter....
by Sita Diehl | November 30, 2018 | Adult Religious Education, Celebrations Children's RE, Children's Religious Education, Youth Education
We are grateful to Nancy Pickering of Middletown Friends Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) for three plays celebrating the Christmas season This is the Stable, A simple telling of the Nativity with readings from the book by Cynthia Cotten, illustrated by Delana...
by Sita Diehl | November 28, 2018 | Children's Religious Education
This lesson explores the Edward Hicks painting, The Peaceable Kingdom (1820), beginning with a famous passage from the book of Isaiah. The focus then turns to the background of the painting depicting the treaty between William Penn and early Friends...
