The 2009 Gathering of Friends will be held June 27th through July 4th at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The gathering lasts a full week. Fees per adult range from a high of $690 for hotel-style rooms with 3 meals per day to a low of $160 if you camp out, sleep through breakfast, and choose the co-op style dinner. There are 57 workshops to choose from. Each workshop meets for an organizing session on Sunday afternoon and then every weekday for the entire week. Thus you choose just one from the 57 to attend. Plenary speakers include Pink Dandelion, Professor of Quaker Studies in Birmingham, England; Shane Claiborne, whose ministry to the poor began when he worked with Mother Teresa; Hollister Knowlton, Clerk of Quaker Earthcare Witness; and Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist and educator known as “the Princess of Black Poetry.” Other activities include a Bible half-hour every morning, a Lemonade Gallery and Quaking Cabaret to show off Quaker artists, sing-a-longs, folk and contra dancing, yoga and movement practices. There are copies of the 28-page Advanced Program on our pamphlet table, but there is even more info on the web site.
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by Boris Kort-Packard | Jan 2007
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Quakers (and certain Zen Buddhists) consider spirituality to be much more active than simply going to meeting. Being alive, awake, alert, aware, sensing, breathing – this sort of “daily mindfulness” is easier to connect to while I am on a bicycle.
There is an interesting duality to bicycling (beyond the two wheels/two legs aspect) that, for me, goes a bit like this: |
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by Carol Ciscel | Nov 2006
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New Orleans lives, but it will never be the same. A city of 436,000 people now has about 120,000 permanent residents. Meteorologists warned us that Katrina would be the big one, but neither the people who lived in harm’s way nor any of the rest of us realized that the devastation would be so huge and the rebuilding so incredibly difficult. |
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