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Category: Past Programs
These posts contain information and resources that were presented in 2nd Hour programs or other events and blogs.
Simple Gifts: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A Night of Great Reluctance -w- Poet, Curtis Derrick & Songsmith, Candace Chellew Public welcome A Night of Great Reluctance Curtis Derrick is a retired educator and reluctant poet – he is better than he thinks he is, but not as great as he aspires to be. Candace Chellew is a writer, editor, ordained minister,…
Green Growth and Degrowth
There will be First Day School available for Young Friends.During the Second Hour, Anne Burke will present ideas and suggestions on possible Personal Responses to Degrowth. 1. Review of definitions of Green Growth and Degrowth as presented in the debate 2. Review of Nate Hagens’s commentary 3. Personal steps to Degrowth 4. Community steps to Degrowth 5. …
Benevolent giving and nurturing
On September 18, we will have Meeting for Worship at 10:00, at the Meetinghouse and virtually. The zoom link is:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472 The Second Hour will be a very important session on how we as a Meeting do benevolent giving and nurturing. Several of our regular and long-term recipients of benevolent giving, including both Members/Attenders of the Meeting…
Martha Schofield, Program
Friend Harold Finnegan of Darby Meeting in Pennsylvania has prepared a program about Martha Schofield, an ardent abolitionist and suffragist from PA who moved to Aiken and founded Schofield School during Reconstruction to educate freed slaves. Today its descendant operates as Schofield Middle School where many children have continued to further their education. Harold will cover the…
The Great Simplification
SIMPLIFICATION-the work of Nate Hagens presented to ColumbiaFriends Meeting, on August 21, 2022 by Alice M. Wald Nate Hagens does. He is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the…
Being in challenging times
The conversation regarding ‘Being in Challenging Times’ will continue on August 20th 2022 at the Columbia Friends meeting house. We will also take a look at tools that could assist us during this process. 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am Join Us at the Quaker Meeting House or via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472
COLUMBIA MONTHLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Meeting for worship with Attention to Business June 12, 2022 Query: What are we doing as a Meeting to recognize and correct the causes of violence within ourcommunities and work toward overcoming separation and restoring wholeness? Philadelphia YearlyMeeting Faith and Practice 2002 SilenceProposal for a program for children: Cassandra Fralix Building and Grounds Committee: Follow…
Integrated Health Community Project
Friends, young in age and young in heart, will be engaged in an Integrated Health Community Project on Sunday after the shortened meeting for worship 10:40- 12:30. The engagement will center on spiritual work that is integral to a thriving community and opportunities to remember who we are and the divine relationship we have with…
An Introduction to Degrowth
Degrowth is a process of planned and democratic reduction of production and consumption in rich countries, eventually reaching a steady state that operates within Earth’s biophysical limits. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in Chapter 5 of its latest report on Mitigation of Climate Change, has called for “consumption reduction, both voluntary and…