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quaker history

Read more about Jackie Murray – April 18 @ 6 pm

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…

Read more about A Spiritual Walk with 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…

Read more about 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…