|
Swarthmore Friends Meeting Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania
|
|
|
Called Meeting for Peace Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Whittier Room Swarthmore
Friends Meeting invites all interested individuals to join us in Whittier Room
on Sunday, February 28,
at 11:45 a.m. for an hour-long Called Meeting for Peace. The
point of our Called Meeting is to supplement our day-to-day intellectual musings
on war, violence, and trauma with collective meditative reflection. This
event will the take the form of what is known as Quaker "worship
sharing," in which spoken, heart-felt insights are shared from a central
focus of spiritual meditation. We invite you to experience how gathering
with others in this way enriches your thinking in a way that differs from
individual reading or from secular political debate. With regard to
specific social concerns, the theme "Found in Translation" invites us
to reflect in a worshipful state on whether or how we might, for example, forge
interfaith connections (e.g. Christian-Muslim); grapple with the notion of a
defensible U.S. military role in Afghanistan or in Haiti; combat gun violence
through healing and compassion; and find peace-related meaning in the everyday.
|
|
|