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Pendle Hill Lecture by Westtown Alum Vanessa Julye

Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture 2021: Radical Transformation – Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends

Sep 13, 2021

Vanessa Julye, co-author of "Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice"
Free and open to the public (registration required!).

7:30pm-9:00pm via Zoom.

How have Friends collaborated with and sustained the global system of White Supremacy? George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends envisioned a revolutionary religion which professes the belief that every person has a direct relationship with God. Early Friends proclaimed our capacity for spiritual wholeness comes from the seed of God planted in our hearts. What structures are preventing Friends from living into these beliefs and growing God’s seed?

Monday, September 13, 2021 - 7:30pm
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Posted by Jonathan Evans on 08/29/2021 - 12:15pm

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