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Quaker Conversations. 6: What is mine to do? Quaker Journeys in AWPS Tickets, Sat 28 Nov 2020 at 07:00 | Eventbrite
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Quaker Conversations. 6: What is mine to do? Quaker Journeys in AWPS
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Please join us on November 28 for Quaker Conversation 6: What is mine to do? Quaker journeys in AWPS (the Asia West Pacific Section).
About this Event
About the Quaker Conversation Webinar Series
In its role of providing connective tissue, FWCC is offering a series of 6 Quaker Conversation sessions to any Friends who want to listen and learn and contribute to concerns important to Friends, particularly during this time of grief and reflection and, transformation.
Session 6:
Please join us on November 28 for Quaker Conversation 6: What is mine to do? Quaker journeys in AWPS (the Asia West Pacific Section) where we will hear from Jo Vallentine of Australia Yearly Meeting and Gerry Yokota of Japan Yearly Meeting.
These two remarkable women have lots to say about how being a Quaker has affected their lives, calling them to their work and activism. “I have been determined to take my Quakerism with me wherever I have felt called” says Jo, referring in part to her 8 years in the Australian Senate. Gerry will talk about being a Quaker in Japan and the importance of Quaker diversity, likening it to the spaces in music. Both women have lived into their Quakerism in inspiring ways.
Come, listen, and learn with Friends around the world.
This is event is in partnerhip with FWCC Asia West Pasific Section.
Corresponding timezones around the world:
London, United Kingdom 07:00 GMT
Paris, France 08:00 CET
Bhopal, India 12:30 IST
Tokyo, Japan 16:00 JST
Melbourne, Australia 18:00 AEDT
Brisbane, Australia 17:00 AEST
About Gerry Yokota has been a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting since 1993. She grew up in a Southern Baptist church in the U.S. and became a Quaker as an adult. In her professional career teaching university English to undergraduates and cultural and literary theory to graduate students, she seeks to plant seeds of awareness of issues of social justice and climate justice through courses focusing on the SDGs.
What Gerry will be exploring in session 6:
As an American who has spent the last three decades of my life in Japan, I am keenly conscious of the need to “feel where the words come from,” as John Woolman said in reference to communicating with Indigenous people he encountered in the American colonies. In this Quaker Conversation, I will talk about how Japan Yearly Meeting sustains my never-ending quest to realize What Is Mine To Do in my professional life as an educator in Japan.
About Jo Vallentine – mother, grandmother, teacher, activist, accidental politician, serial offender, has been connected with Western Australia Regional Meeting since 1972.
What Jo will be exploring in session 6:
Pathway to Quakers (black sheep of family, Catholic boarding school education, finding Meeting with fabulous mentors)
Anti-nuclear campaigning accompanying motherhood, being led to contest a place in the Australian Senate in 1984 (against all odds, winning a seat)
The accidental Senator (being a peoples’ representative through a Quaker lens, simultaneously creating community)
Continuing with activism (including nonviolence trainings, Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, committing holy obedience and landing in gaol, round Australia Pilgrimage with Chernobyl survivors connecting with indigenous groups, helping to establish Alternatives to Violence Project in Western Australia
Current contributions (Extinction Rebellion grandparents’ group, lobbying for de-militarisation which could fund all of U.N.s seventeen Sustainable Development goals)
Additional Event Details:
This event will be held in English. If you need additional interpretation or assistance, please contact faithb@fwcc.world with the subject line 'interpretation request'.
This event will be hosted online. Once you register on Eventbrite, you will get a link to the zoom meeting where this event will be hosted.
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Sat, 28 November 2020
17:30 – 19:00 ACDT
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The purpose of FWCC is to encourage fellowship and understanding among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends. FWCC brings Friends together in multiple ways to celebrate God in our lives, to gather the Quaker voice and build networks to address issues of our time, and to unite us within our diversity.
The Quaker community circles the globe, spanning a rich diversity of regional cultures, beliefs and styles of worship.
FWCC organizes its work through its four section offices and the World Office, collaborating and encouraging the work of each section and work across sections. Each section embodies rich cultural and theological diversity, and they organize opportunities and programmes to bring Friends together and to learn from each other.
The World Office uniquely represents all Friends at the global level through our participation with the Quaker United Nations Offices, offering Quakers the chance to contribute to world affairs. Our consultation extends to those of other faiths through work with the World Council of Churches, the Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, and participation in global ecumenical and interfaith work.
During the coronavirus pandemic, we are running a webinar series called 'Conversations with Friends' to continue the connecting of our global family of Friends during this time of social distancing and change around the world.
Each month the FWCC World Office will be hosting a conversation for Friends world wide in partnership with Quaker agencies, and study centres, and the FWCC sections.
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Coming Right Way (ONLINE) — Silver Wattle Quaker Centre
Coming Right Way (ONLINE)
Saturday, November 14, 202012:30 PM
Sunday, November 15, 20201:30 PM
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Led by Michelle Howard
We aim to live our lives in the outward world as a testimony to our inward Life and Light. While the Black Lives Matter movement is unfolding across the world, non-Indigenous Australians are challenged to look at themselves in order to become better allies to the First Peoples of this land.
This course will provide a safe space where we can bring bothers, questions and any awkwardness we might feel in our relationships with First Peoples. To explore questions of “white” privilege, and de-colonising.
Schedule:
14 November (Saturday morning) 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Sydney time)
14 November (Saturday afternoon) 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
15 November (Sunday morning) 8.45 am – 10.45 am
Course cost: $40. Limit of 16 participants. SORRY, THIS COURSE IS SOLD OUT!
Contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list.
Michelle Howard is a Member of Victoria Regional Meeting, and the Managing director of a boutique consultancy company, Collaborations.
Michelle has worked for and alongside Indigenous communities and colleagues for the past 30 years on projects as diverse as public art, community planning, governance, urban design and health.
More recently she has designed and run intercultural training for organisations around Australia with her friend and colleague Carol Vale (Dunghutti/Gumbaingirr).
Upcoming Courses — Silver Wattle Quaker Centre
Upcoming Courses
All on-site courses and events have been cancelled until December, when we will re-assess the COVID situation. We will continue to develop more ON-LINE OFFERINGS which, of course, are not cancelled.
The Centre is open for up to four individuals to stay, including as Friends in Residence. Thank you for your ongoing prayers, goodwill, and FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
OCT
16
Sixth Day Readings: The Simplification of Life by Thomas Kelly
Friday, October 16, 2020
7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Led by David Johnson
On-line course, via Zoom
• Five Friday evenings, 7.00 – 8.15 pm AEDT
• 16 & 23 Oct., 6 & 20 Nov., 4 & possibly 18 Dec., 2020
• Maximum of 12 participants.
Join us for careful readings of one of Thomas Kelly’s writings dating from 1939, The Simplification of Life. You will be invited to read sections and allow space for anyone to share a response, starting and finishing with a short period of waiting worship.
Kelly had worked on the Board of the American Friends Service Committee in the late 1930s and had a wonderful way of engaging people in the eternal present:
"We Western peoples are apt to think our great problems are external, environmental. We are not skilled in the inner life, where the real roots of our problem lie. For I would suggest that the true explanation of the complexity of our program is an inner one, not an outer one."
MORE INFORMATION HERE
This course is offered without charge - any donations to SWQC are gratefully accepted
Links for the Zoom sessions and electronic texts will be sent with a Welcome letter to Registrants before the first session.
THIS COURSE IS FULL.
PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON A WAITING LIST
David Johnson is drawn to contemplative prayer and learning what the Spirit of God is teaching him through prayer, engagement with Quaker writings, with the scriptures, and immersion in the natural world. He has led many retreats, both in Australia and in the USA. His short video on prayer is available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxGL2GQgZ0
David delivered the 2005 Backhouse Lecture, “Peace is a Struggle”; and has authored numerous books and pamphlets focusing on the life of prayer and biblical scholarship in a Quaker context.
OCT
16
TO OCT 22
Spring Gardening & Landcare week
Fri, Oct 16, 20204:30 PM Thu, Oct 22, 20201:30 PM
Silver Wattle is open for the Spring Gardening & Landcare week!
To be COVID safe, participants will have their own unit and bathroom, will observe physical distancing in common areas, and numbers will be limited. As usual, the rhythm of the day will include time for work, worship, rest and fellowship. No skills are required, but an enthusiasm for earthcare and growing food. You can work with others or at your own pace.
Gardening & Landcare weeks are free, but a donation to cover costs is appreciated.
Day visitors would be particularly welcome on Sunday 18 October. To register or for more information please contact Felicity at felicity.rose@silverwattle.org.au or Mardi at mardi.reg@bigpond.com .
OCT
10
TO DEC 5
Quaker Basics Online
Sat, Oct 10, 20203:00 PM Sat, Dec 5, 20204:00 PM
led by Sheila Keane
Weekly Zoom sessions Saturdays 3:00-4:00pm AEST
10th October- 7th November… then 21st November- 12th December
This 9-week course is offered in cooperation with Quaker Learning Australia and follows the general structure of their "Quaker Basics" resource manual. The course will run for nine weekly online sessions covering a range of topics: Individual Experience, Meeting for Worship, Vocal Ministry, Testimonies, Leadings, Quaker Organisation, and Membership.
Participants will be buddied up with 2 or 3 others in a group which will stay together through the entire course: we ask for a commitment to attend all 9 sessions for the sake of the group. You can indicate specific people for your group or be allocated to a group if you prefer.
Some readings are suggested in preparation for each session. The Zoom sessions will supplement this background reading with guest presentations and opportunities to consider the topic in your small groups.
The course is suitable for experienced Friends seeking a re-grounding in Quakerism, as well as newer attenders and inquirers. For more information, contact Sheila.Keane@silverwattle.org.au
Cost is $90 for this 9 week online course. Registration is closed from 10 October
Upcoming Courses
Silver Wattle Learning courses are designed to deepen Spirit through prayer, learning and community living so that participants are renewed when they return to live and be in the world.
October 2020
Quaker Basics OnlineOct 10, 2020 – Dec 5, 2020
Spring Gardening & Landcare weekOct 16, 2020 – Oct 22, 2020
Sixth Day Readings: The Simplification of Life by Thomas KellyOct 16, 2020
November 2020
Coming Right Way (ONLINE)Nov 14, 2020 – Nov 15, 2020
Is Our Light Their Light? 370 Years of Quaker Transformation (ONLINE)Nov 28, 2020
December 2020
End of Year Retreat: Seeking Union with SpiritDec 28, 2020 – Jan 3, 2021
February 2021
Writing from the Heart - ONLINEFeb 27, 2021 – Mar 27, 2021
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The Book of Expanded Deism
EXPANDED DEISM·SUNDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2019·
Simply speaking, Deism is the philosophy that teaches only the following two things: 1) One should base all of one's beliefs on reason, and
Sounds good, doesn't it? It is, but it is only the beginning of an adequate personal philosophy. It needs much more to help one be as sane, good, and happy as possible. In other words, Deism needs to be expanded to give one an adequate personal philosophy.
The Book of Expanded Deism is the result of decades of learning, thinking, writing, debating, and revising. In it, the longtime deputy director of the World Union of Deists, Jayson X, uses his reason, compassion, and hope to craft the best personal philosophy that he can. His hope is that many people will read this book and freely adopt as many of its assertions as they honestly can. The ultimate goal is to help all humans and all the creatures humanity impacts.
To learn more about the World Union Deists and/or Jayson X, go to www.deism.com or www.jaysonx.com. Jayson's email address is jaysonx1776@gmail.com. His favorite way to correspond is through email.