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Spring Retreat: Life Together as Quakers
Involvement in a Quaker meeting has a foundation in having a Quaker-based interest and understand of our individual spiritual journeys. These individual spiritual journeys are supported, developed, engaged, and lived out in the context of the life of the meeting. The dynamic between the individual and the meeting community can at times be complicated. While meeting communities are places for nurturing, they are also places of challenges, discipline and transformation. This retreat will explore and allow us to discuss concepts of community, false-community, and life together as related to the dynamic of our individual spiritual journeys and lives. The retreat will be at Quaker House on Saturday, March 13, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The retreat will be based on two pamphlets: A Place Called Community by Parker Palmer and Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting by Thomas Gates. These pamphlets will be made available for reading before the retreat.
Quakers and Jesus
By long tradition, Quakers do not celebrate religious holidays—every day is seen as deeply holy. We therefore do not follow a liturgical calendar as many other religions do, rather attempting to live in the Light at all times. At the same time, our children are embedded in a world where days like Christmas and Easter are almost universally noted. The discussions such days evoke can offer First Day School opportunities to examine core religious themes. This year, First Day School feels led to explore the theme of "Quakers and Jesus" for the 1st First Day Program on April 4, and therefore invites Friends to participate with our children in a brief exercise in the meeting room immediately after Meeting for Worship. Finger foods will be available in the dinning room during and after this program. People are invited to bring finger foods to share. This sharing of finger foods will be in lieu of the regularly scheduled potluck fellowship dinner.
Interfaith Council Dialogs
The Hyde Park & Kenwood Interfaith Council is continuing its popular and insightful series of monthly dialogs on questions of faith and religion. These dialogs will have a facilitator and some discussion starters, but will provide an opportunity for all attending to address the question of the day. Therefore, those planning to attend are encouraged to give thought to the question in advance and come prepared to speak to it. Individuals who have not developed an answer are also welcome to attend so that the views of others might help guide their consideration of the issue. These dialogs are held on the first Sundays of the month, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at member organizations. Light refreshments will be available at each interfaith dialog.
March 7: "How does your personal relationship with God, Truth, or Ultimate Reality influence your attitude toward death and your thoughts on our existence after death?" at KAM Isaiah Israel, 1100 E. Hyde Park Blvd., in the Library (enter through the door adjoining the parking lot on Greenwood)
April 11: "What is your faith tradition's response to environmental issues?" at Chicago Theological School, entering via 1164 E. 58th St.
May 2: , "What have been the most significant changes in your denomination/larger faith tradition over recent decades?” at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 5200 S. University Ave.
June 6: "How does American culture, and particularly it's media, affect your faith?" at 57th St. Meeting of Friends, 5615 S. Woodlawn Ave.
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