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# Memphis Friends Meeting

A warm welcome from the Memphis Friends Meeting (Quakers)

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- [Stewardship and Me](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/stewardship-and-me/) - By Neal It is rare to feel absolutely sure of something; perhaps that’s part of the appeal of religion. Religion can provide a feeling of certainty in an often-uncertain world. For me, this has less to do with knowledge of what the future will hold, and more to do with a sense of one’s place
- [Midsouth Pride - June 6, 11am - 5pm](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/midsouth-pride-june-6th-11am-5pm/) - Look for us at Midsouth Pride:https://www.simpletix.com/e/51st-annual-memphis-pride-festival-tickets-272095 Here is a video of our minute (public statement) on gender and sexuality:https://youtu.be/MC0OxPJ-XQI
- [Love as Action -  June 13 @ noon](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/love-as-action-june-13-noon/) - Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/942741/
- [Quaker Simplicity](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/quaker-simplicity/) - By Candace In the late 1700's, my forefathers crossed the Atlantic to settle in Pennsylvania, a place William Penn and his followers had established a century before to practice the Quaker faith in peace. In the 1800's, third-generation ancestors on both my paternal and maternal sides migrated to Iowa to farm, and 150 years later,
- [Love as Action - May 16 @ noon](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/love-as-action-may-16-noon/) - Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/942733/
- [Game Night](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/game-night/) - By Denny A new kind of meeting for Memphis Friends is our monthly game night, which started in fall 2024 - we’ve called it meeting for worship with attention to community, to fun, or to games. Danielle notes that game night is wholesome - a time to gather as a community to play and have
- [Love as Action - April 25 @ noon](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/love-as-action-april-25-noon/) - Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/942727/
- [Jackie Murray - April 18 @ 6 pm](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/jackie-murray-april-18-6m/) - Open to all - both Friends and any other folks who would like to attend, this event is free and promises to be a compelling performance, rich in history and inspiration from the courage of one woman who changed so many lives. Join us at our meetinghouse on 3387 Walnut Grove Rd., Memphis, TN, for an
- [We All Dream, Don't We?](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/we-all-dream-dont-we/) - By Carol Friend Marcelle Martin from Swarthmore Meeting in Pennsylvania has gifted the Pendle Hill pamphlet she wrote on finding spiritual guidance in our dreams to “Dreia (Andre) and Memphis Meeting.” She found inspiration in the spiritual discoveries, radical theology, and collective faithfulness of the first generation of Quakers and reminds us that the same
- [Love as Action - March 21 @ noon](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/love-as-action-march-21-noon/) - Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/920288/
- [Songs to Ground and Uplift](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/songs-to-ground-and-uplift/) - Dann Pell will be sharing his music ministry, Songs to Ground and Uplift, at Memphis Quaker Meeting on Saturday, March 1 at 5:00 PM. This special gathering is open to the public and free to attend. Donations to support the artist (cash or virtual) are warmly welcomed. Dann Pell is a musician and member of
- [Think Twice](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/october-mfm-newsletter-a-sampling/) - At the August business meeting, the Justice Working Group shared information about the American Friends Service Committee’s ThinkTwice campaign (https://afsc.org/thinktwice). AFSC’s four ThinkTwice webinars, available as recordings on the web site, explore the impact of calling the police within our diverse communities and offer practical suggestions and de-escalation skills. The campaign also invites people to
- [On My Own](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/november-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By David C. Since my illness last fall, I have relied on others to watch over me and make sure I don’t fall, but when Quaker Earthcare Witness scheduled their fall meetings at the Quaker retreat center at Pendle Hill, I felt ready to strike out on my own. All went well. I had a
- [Colorful SPICES](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/december-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Carol December is a festive month full of color. Even as the orange and yellow leaves of autumn are falling to the ground, we begin to think of Christmas reds and greens as we decorate our houses inside and out. The other day in worship I began to wonder about pairing our six testimonies with the six colors of the
- [Clearness Committees](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/march-2026-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Ron (reprinted from January 1999 newsletter) A Quaker clearness committee is a unique method of seeking discernment. The name expresses its purpose. Clearness committees help Friends find clarity. Friend Parker Palmer writes, “Behind the clearness committee is a simple but crucial conviction: each of us has an inner teacher, a voice of truth, that
- [Ron's Christmas Concert](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/january-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Ron’s Christmas Concert, held in the First Day School room on his birthday December 14, was attended by about a dozen children. Ron writes, “We sang Christmas songs with some piano accompaniment from two of the older children, and Ron told the story of how the tradition of hanging colored lights on Christmas Trees began.
- [Is There a Quaker Personality?](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/february-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Is There a Quaker Personality?By Khyber I attended a workshop on using enneagrams for spiritual direction this January and it got me wondering about how personality interacts with belief and faith.The enneagram method is a scientifically tested but ancient way of looking at people through nine personality types. (Ennea is Greek for nine.)Although each type has
- [Friend Marian Fuson - 1920 to 2024](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/march-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Marian Fuson passed away on February 7 at her home in the Quaker Kendal Retirement Community in Kennet Square PA. She was 103 years of age. Marian was born to Quaker parents in New Jersey where she attended Moorestown Friends School. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1942 and joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation when
- [Experiencing the Eclipse](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/may-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Many Memphis Friends traveled over the Mississippi River to Arkansas to view the eclipse while others stayed in Memphis. Debbie writes, “My husband, one of my friends, and I went to Pocahontas, AR, northwest of Jonesboro. We had a scenic site on the Black River to sit, eat a picnic lunch and enjoy the wait.
- [Finding Friends](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/june-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Kent One day when I was about 7, I asked my mother if she thought people who didn’t worship the way we did would really go to hell. She answered by asking, “What do you think,” and I simply said “No, they don’t.” It didn’t make sense that God would love some people and not others, no matter what
- [Rediscovering Friends](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/july-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Mary Jane My first encounter with Quaker meeting was in London. I remember the stillness, the plain wooden benches and the plain glass windows looking out into Covent Gardens. Having been raised in an Evangelical tradition, I was surprised how well the quiet suited me but when I got home, I resumed worship with
- [When Way Opens](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/august-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Mallory Before a global pandemic, before a continued journey of infertility, before a baby entered our lives, before I knew anything about pastoral care or chaplaincy, when my now spouse and I were dating, Katelyn and I were traveling one weekend. I was driving and the topic of seminary came up. I was hesitant
- [Sharing Trees](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/september-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Robin The Black Seeds Urban Garden in Uptown Memphis and the Frayser Community Urban Garden sit in food deserts where they are committed to improving the availability of fresh foods in their respective neighborhoods. Back in 2023, several Friends in our Meeting met these gardeners during the Experience Memphis Garden Tour that summer. When
- [Blue River Quarterly Meeting](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/october-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Shahin Adrian, Juli, and I traveled to DuBois, Illinois September 20-22 for the Blue River Quarterly (BRQ) gathering that is part of Illinois Yearly Meeting. Friends welcomed us warmly, curious about how we discovered them and how things fared with Memphis Friends Meeting and our own yearly meeting. Many of us had similar stories
- [Miracles, Simplicity & Peace](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/november-mfm-news-a-sampling-2/) - By James As a lover of fairy tales and cartoons, I have wanted to believe in miracles since I was a child. The notion that extraordinary things could happen—the deus ex machina, the lightning that appears out of thin air and makes everything all right—it felt to me that the extraordinary was right around the
- [Ghosts of Christmas Past](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/december-mfm-news-a-sampling-2/) - By Carol Is there anything that can tie us so tightly to our childhoods as Christmas? Childhood memories are especially powerful even though they are often amorphous. The smells, the sounds, the seasonal triggers of memory form a kind of dream world that has little to do with the current Christmas or even with any
- [Rescuing a Butterfly](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/january-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By William (Carol's grandson) The entire first half of last September was dominated for me by something I had never done before. I tried to rebuild the damaged wing of a monarch butterfly I found in my backyard one afternoon with her left forewing torn in half. She was flailing about in the grass, trying
- [Church in Spanish](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/march-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - by Blake Recently I attended a church service very different from our Quaker meeting. I sat in the back and understood only parts of the service, which was in Spanish. I was there to support my goddaughter Maria who had been asked to lead a "Know Your Rights" training after the service. Around me mothers
- [Soul Trees](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/april-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Randall Mullins On the last day of SeptemberI walk a half blockto visit eight trees I have gotten to know.They are left from a larger forest,still cared for by a third-generation owner.He took these trees into his heartand it shows. I saw them first five years agofrom our fourth-floor window,just after we moved herenine
- [A Prayer for Our Times](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/may-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Kent IF . . . if they depend on ignorance, may i read until my eyes dry outif they depend on chaos, may i be steadfast and sereneif they depend on fear, may i be gentle and comforting to all i meetif they depend on division, may i nurture community wherever i goif they
- [2BNew or New2B](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/june-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Kali As encouragement to new Quakers with a mix of questions, doubts, and wonder, I think it's like that for long-time Quakers, too! Imagine how new it must have felt for the first Quakers nearly 400 years ago. They had serious doubts about the religious thought of their day and felt it would be
- [Mowing and Gardening](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/july-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Carol The first spring in our meetinghouse (2009) we grappled not only with how to organize our rooms but also how to manage our yards. Mowing was a challenge because we have three -- front, side, and back. We soon realized the front yard was mainly for show, the side yard for gardening, and
- [The "C" in SPICES](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/august-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Adrian I’ve been thinking a lot about what creates an authentic community. At Illinois Yearly Meeting last June, I had the chance to talk with Windy Cooler whom I had met at a Pendle Hill retreat a few years ago. As she talked about her many experiences with both healthy and unhealthy communities, I
- [Pioneers in Mental Health](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/september-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Kelly Little was understood about mental illness in the Middle Ages. Sufferers were viewed either as eccentric or possessed by demons. The high point of abuse, however, actually came in the 1600s and it was just then that early Quakers began to counter the conventional wisdom. Perhaps it was Friends’ experience with prisons that
- [Pride Festival](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/october-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Alyson The festival draws a lot of creative and open-minded folks who enjoy the safe place to be themselves and their energy is contagious. Our team worked very smoothly together. We had time to get to know each other while we were setting up and doing the outreach. Jace was an amazing help getting
- [Hummer](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/november-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Anne R. The six rosetteson the mason jar feederlooked identical to me,but apparently notto the – I want to say“persnickety” –ruby-throated hummerrounding the jar –idling on airbefore each oneuntil he found the one,and uncoiling his tonguesipped the blurof his scintillant selfin the sugar water,his turbo-charged wingschurning the leavesof the potted plant below,like freak gustsin
- [Beginnings & Endings](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/december-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Robert The article in November Memphis Friends News about launching a new meeting combined with my own recent Quaker experience has led me to reflect on how Quaker meetings begin and end. My wife and I are now spending about six months a year in Nelson Co, Virginia near our older daughter's family. Surprisingly,
- [Quaker Speech](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/january-2026-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - By Carol When someone wants a broader understanding of Quakerism, we often suggest looking at the videos online called Quaker Speak without even noticing the oxymoron. If our worship is silent, what are we doing talking about speech? In fact, Friends are called to speak on many occasions -- messages in worship and in Joys
- [Love as Action](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/february-2026-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Love as Action, the first of a series of worshipful protests, was held on Saturday January 17 in the front yard of our meetinghouse. The 25 Friends and neighbors In Memphis were joining Friends in a dozen or more cities to build a collective presence against the rising authoritarianism. The day was cold, but hope
- [Happy World Quaker Day!](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/happy-world-quaker-day/) - October 5 is World Quaker Day. Consider joining us for worship at 11:00 and potluck at the rise of meeting (around 12:15). All are welcome!
- [Marking MLK Day](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/february-2025-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Marking MLK Day Five Friends helped plant the 20 trees we donated to the Frayser Food Forest while five helped out with Food not Bombs at Court Square, both on January 18th. On the 20th, Susan and Blake marched in the MLK Day parade, and at least three Friends participated in two MLK interfaith
- [In Remembrance of Kate](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/in-remembrance-of-kate/) - On Wednesday, July 10, Kate Chilton’s friends and family will gather at the meetinghouse beginning at 6:00 pm central, with worship beginning at 6:30 and tea service at 7:30. For those unable to come in person, Zoom access will be available (to request access information, please email memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com). Below is the wonderful obituary written by
- [Visit Our Garden June 16!](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/visit-our-garden-june-16/) - Memphis Friends’ Meeting, 3387 Walnut Grove Road, (F/N), 1-5pmWith appreciation and respect for the Chickasaw people who were stewards of our area long before settlers arrived, the members of the Memphis Quaker Meeting have planted two raised beds in the “Three Sisters” tradition. Many native American groups, including the Chickasaw, used the companion planting of
- [Remembering Mark](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/remembering-mark/) - Recently, at the memorial service for Mark Gilley, Memphis Friends were able to share with Mark’s friends from other parts of his life the news that over the years a few of Mark’s poems had appeared in the MFM newsletter. We also brought smiles to the faces of old friends when we recalled how Mark
- [April MFM News - A Sampling](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/april-mfm-news-a-sampling/) - Friend Pat Stone JessupPatricia Stone Jessup passed away in the early hours of March 13. A lifelong Quaker, Pat had attended a Quaker Church in North Carolina as a child and was a faithful attender at our meeting for three decades. In her early days with us she led several seminars that met every Sunday
- [Introducing Plain Drain](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/introducing-plain-drain/) - Our meeting has officially “adopted” a Memphis storm water drain!In an effort to reduce the debris being dumped into our rivers, the City of Memphis Storm Water Program has asked individuals and organizations to adopt and name a storm drain. We answered the call. Our adopted drain is at the corner of Walnut Grove and
- [FCNL Priorities - MFM Input](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/fcnl-priorities-mfm-input/) - Every two years, FCNL, Friends Committee on National Legislation, gives us the opportunity to give input into their legislative priorities discernment for the next two-year session of Congress. It’s a Spirit-led process to help discern what our government should be working on during the current events of our day and how policies might affect our
- [Memphis Friends Retreat - April 27-28](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/memphis-friends-retreat-february-3-4/) - Memphis Friends Meeting will focus on community building during the upcoming weekend retreat April 27-28. The retreat will be hybrid and will be facilitated by Dr. Folami Prescott-Adams, a Friend traveling from Atlanta to be with us. Childcare will be available. Donations of $25 are encouraged, but all Friends are welcome with or without donations.
- [Online Only - 1/21/2024](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/online-only-1-21-2024/) - Memphis Friends Meeting will meet via Zoom only on 1/21/2024. For access information, please use the contact form or send an email to memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com. Wishing you warmth and safety during these cold days!
- [Thanksgiving Baskets](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/thanksgiving-baskets/) - Greetings, FriendsWe collected 21 Thanksgiving baskets for the New Tyler AME Food Pantry this year. This surpassed our goal of 20 baskets. Thanks to all who participated. The baskets were delivered to the Food Pantry yesterday morning. Aiding me in the delivery were Schleppers Extraordinaire Kali and Shahin. Each basket included a Thanksgiving card signed by many of our Meeting,
- [Voyage of the Merry Ark](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/voyage-of-the-merry-ark/) - A local friend known to many Memphis Friends, George Grider Jr., has a new book out, Voyage of the Merry Ark. The memoir tells the remarkable story of five crewmen caught in an ocean storm that nearly took their lives. The story of the at-sea rescue of the dog Sam, the ship’s mascot, was published nationwide, sparking
- [History Is Written in the Land](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/history-is-written-in-the-land/) - Ted’s Meeting for Learning on 10/15 was grounded in several queries: How can dwelling in “unsettling places” create conditions for the still small voice to surface?What are the things that haunt us? What forms do these hauntings take?What do our ghosts want from us?Who are the ghosts present in our midst who can support our journeys? In
- [Upcoming FCNL Conference](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/upcoming-fcnl-conference/) - Registration for FCNL’s annual meeting and Quaker Public Policy Institute (November 15-19) is now open online. You may register for one or both events, and you may attend virtually or in person. It’s going to be an inspiring, hopeful and significant event. I hope you’ll join us for all or part of the meeting! Jane Hiles
- [Doris' Ministry of Flowers](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/doris-ministry-of-flowers/) - Ethel “Doris” Connor, 68, died at home Thursday, June 22, 2023. The last few days of her life were mostly spent sleeping and listening to friends who came to say goodbye. She died a few minutes after some of her deepest friends spoke to her about her beloved children, grandchildren, and her part of the
- [Water Is Life](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/water-is-life/) - Sarah Houston, executive director of Protect Our Aquifer, was the guest presenter for the 6/18 meeting for learning. She reviewed the history of POA and its current projects. Friends had many questions. Sarah urged Friends to utilize tools on the POA web site to email MLGW leadership and amplify Memphians’ call for new safer, cooling
- [No Such Difference](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/no-such-difference/) - 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
- [Nourishing Friendships](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/nourishing-friendships/) - The query offered at business meeting and meeting for worship on 9/10 was how we nourish our friendships so that they deepen over time.At business meeting, plans were shared for Thanksgiving baskets this year. New Tyler AME has arranged to receive turkeys and hams for the 100 or so friends who frequent the church’s food
- [A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/spiritual-walk-howard-thurman/) - 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. Registration is required, with an October 15 deadline. Registrants will receive a free copy of Dr. Brown’s recently published book about Howard Thurman and his mysticism.
- [Acts of Worship](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/acts-of-worship/) - The passage used to open the June business meeting was from Basics of Conducting a Quaker Business Meeting:Whenever we remember that we are in the presence of God, transformation is possible. Every task, no matter how mundane, becomes an act of worship, a word of praise offered to God. This is the basis for Quaker business

## Pages

- [Home](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/) - Who We Are​ The Memphis Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is an unprogrammed, non-pastoral Quaker Meeting. Unprogrammed worship is silent worship. We enter the meeting room silently. Our first task when worship begins is to center down, to still the clamor of the world, to turn our attention to the inner voice.
- [House & Grounds](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/hg/) - The House & Grounds Committee coordinates stays of overnight guests, as well as for the care and stewardship of our meeting house and land. This could range from cleaning after worship or a potluck, routine garden and yard maintenance, or large repair and improvement projects.All friends are encouraged to participate and contribute their ideas or
- [FCNL Priorities Process](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/fcnlpriorities/) - The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) acts in faith to create a world free from war, a society with equity and justice for all, a community where every person’s potential may be fulfilled, and an earth restored. FCNL brings Friends’ spiritual values and testimonies to bear on U.S. federal public policy decisions, guided by
- [Food Justice Markets](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/markets/) - A growing number of Memphians have established urban community gardens and markets to grow and sell produce. These are usually located in areas of the city considered “food deserts”, where access to locally grown and affordable produce are absent and most needed. You might think of these as Food Justice Markets, as they see healthy
- [Podcasts](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/the-growing-edge-podcast/) - Thee Quaker Podcast brings stories of spiritual courage to your ears by way of Jon Watts and Georgia Sparling. Whether you are a lifelong Quaker, seeking a spiritual home, or simply passing by out of curiosity, we know you will find something that speaks to you in this podcast feed every week (new episodes drop on Wednesday).
- [COVID (Our Meeting's Approach)](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/covid-our-meetings-approach/) - At our March 2023 business meeting, Memphis Friends agreed to the following:People worshipping in the meetinghouse should follow their own leadings about masking. When the county’s status is green, the weekly email will not note the status. However, whenever the status is yellow or red, the weekly email will call attention to that information ( CDC
- [Ruth Boaz Library Catalog](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/ruth-boaz-library-catalog/) - Most of the meeting’s library is reflected in the online version of the card catalog. If you see a book you’d like to check out and you do not attend in-person activities, let us know at memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com. We’ll arrange a pick-up or drop-off.https://www.librarything.com/catalog/MemphisQuakers
- [Minutes of Social Concern](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/minutes-of-social-concern/) - In the Quaker tradition, a minute is “a statement of a decision or a testimony, adopted by a meeting for business or a committee, expressing the unity of the meeting or committee for the action taken or the testimony given.” Monthly meetings such as Memphis Friends Meeting often send one another their minutes, especially those
- [Friends Journal](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/friends-journal/) - Friends Journal is published by Friends Publishing Corporation. Its mission is to communicate the Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives.Copies of old issues of Friends Journal are available on the pamphlet table at the Memphis meetinghouse. Help yourself! Digital access is free and includes a full archive of this magazine, which
- [Contact](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/contact/)
- [Key Concepts for Gender & Sexuality Equality](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/key-concepts-for-gender-sexuality-equality/) - These Key Concepts for Gender & Sexuality Equality were definitions gathered during our process of developing and approving a Gender and Sexuality Equality minute.
- [Top 10 Quakers in Fiction](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/top-10-quakers-in-fiction/) - This recent list of Top 10 Quakers in fiction, written by Bridget Collins of The Guardian, is making the rounds among Memphis Friends. Several years ago we did a group-read of one of the listed books, Invention of Wings.Our meetinghouse library has a fiction section, but many of the books on this list are books
- [How Children Participate](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/children/) - Children sit with the adults in worship for about 10 minutes and then leave for the school room. The adults running First Day School will signal when it’s time. In First Day School they play, listen to stories, hold their own worship sharing, and sometimes even hold their own business meetings with a designated clerk
- [News](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/news/) - TagsAFSC business meeting children community equality FCNL FWCC Howard Thurman LGBTQ+ Meeting for Learning memphis history music mysticism newsletter Protect Our Aquifer protest Quaker Earthcare Witness quaker history retreat snow stewardship testimonies World Quaker Day worship Stewardship and Me By Neal It is rare to feel absolutely sure of something; perhaps that’s part of the
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- [Quakers in Memphis](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/quakers-in-memphis/) - To learn about Quakers in general, including a brief history, beliefs, forms of governance, and other frequently asked questions, visit:About Quakerson the Friends General Conference site (our larger umbrella organization). The Religious Society of Friends began during a period of political and religious ferment in England in the 1640s. Very soon Friends had come to
- [Wider Quaker Organizations](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/wider-quaker-organizations/) - Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association (SAYMA) is the regional association meetings of the Religious Society of Friends of which Memphis Friends Meeting is a part.Web address: https://www.sayma.org/ Founded in 1900, Friends General Conference is an association of local and regional Quaker organizations primarily in the United States and Canada. FGC is a volunteer-led
- [How We Worship](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/how-we-worship/) - Unprogrammed worship is silent worship. We enter the meeting room silently. Our first task when worship begins is to center down, to still the clamor of the world, to turn our attention to the inner voice. This process may take 20 minutes or even longer.You will find that there is no program, no prepared prayers,
- [Donate to Memphis Friends Meeting](https://memphisfriendsmeeting.org/donate-to-memphis-friends-meeting/) - Quakers in Memphis actively support a wide variety of good causes with their time, talent, and resources, and we appreciate your financial donation to sustain the work.Your donation also helps maintain our physical and online presence to nurture a welcoming community of Quaker practice here in the heart of Memphis.We have two ways you can

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