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The Memphis Theological Seminary's Center for Faith and Imagination is sponsoring a no-cost retreat October 30-31 at St. Columba Retreat Center outside Memphis: "A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman" with Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown.
The passage shared by Co-Clerk Kelly on the Father's Day meeting for worship was from Margaret Fell, sometimes referred to as "the Mother of Quakerism":
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
Kelly's query was something along these lines: How do we learn from the wisdom of historical Quakers without revering them inappropriately?
Jackie Murray updated Memphis Friends during the 3/19 meeting for learning about her film project, Calling On Harriet. Together we watched a short film on Tilly's Escape, one of the episodes of Harriet Tubman's life that will make up the film. The primary documentation shedding light on the escape is a letter between two abolitionist Quakers.
Image credit: Quaker artist Maggie Nelson - https://maggienelsonstudio.com/quaker-prints
Mary Dyer - Who Opened the Way
by Khyber
The passage shared by the Clerk at the 07/31 meeting for wroship comes from Hilda Clark, the Quaker physician and humanitarian whose work in World War ! pavd the way for the Kindertransport of World War II:
One thing I understand now is that one’s intellect alone won’t pull one through, and that the greatest service it can perform is to open a window for that thing we call the Devine spirit. — Hilda Clark, 1908
At the 7/24 meeting for learning, Blake led Memphis Friends through a conversation about our identities as Southern Quakers and our understanding of Southern Quaker history.
We began by welcoming the stories of 8 Quakers who lived in or passed through the Mid-South in previous generations You can read their bios in the slideshow: