Merion Friends Meeting History Festival 2018
Last year’s History Festival was so much fun, we’re doing it again, with even more activities. Announcing Merion Friends Meeting History Festival 2018 on Saturday, May 19, 2018, 10 am –…
Read moreLynching in America: Zacchariah Walker, August 13, 1911
In our studies of racial injustice and officially sanctioned violence in America, we learned that there had been a lynching in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, quite close to Philadelphia. In…
Read moreArts and Healing
At Meeting for Worship last week, the role of the arts in healing physical, psychic and spiritual trauma inspired several of the messages. “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We…
Read morePromises, Risks, and Teamwork: Quaker Involvement in the Antebellum Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad
Come join us Sunday, February 26th at 12:00 noon in the Merion Friends Meetinghouse at 615 Montgomery Avenue in Merion Station. Christopher Densmore and Emma Lapsansky-Werner will speak on the…
Read moreA parable for today
Once there was a real estate developer who owned an apartment building. It required extensive renovations, so he set about having the wiring and plumbing updated, the floors refinished, and…
Read moreSterling Duns featured in the QuakerSpeaks video series
Merion Friends Meeting member Dwight Dunston, who writes and performs hip hop music/poetry under the name Sterling Duns, was featured today in two videos in the QuakerSpeaks series. The first…
Read moreEnding Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow: A Pendle Hill Conference
The Pendle Hill Quaker retreat and conference center will host the conference “Ending Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow” Apr 29 – May 3, 2015. Registration is full, but…
Read moreBroken on All Sides tonight at Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and Merion Friends Meeting invite you to a showing of the film Broken on All Sides, a film exploring problems in the US prison system presented…
Read moreAngus Love and Bonnie Kerness to lead first prison reform discussion forum
Merion Friends Meeting and Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church are jointly sponsoring a month of events to raise awareness of the problem of mass incarceration in the US. The lead off…
Read moreJobs and Internships at FCNL
“Washington lobbyist” carries very negative connotations, but all citizens can petition the government, and those who are organized can do it more effectively. The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies…
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