Merion Friends Meeting News Feed

News, blog and information from Merion Friends Meeting, a Quaker Meeting in the Philadelphia/Narberth/Bala Cynwyd area.

Merion Friends Meeting History Festival 2017

By merion March 19, 2017 Abolitionism, Children, Community, Education and Outreach, Fun, History of Merion Meeting, Lower Merion History, Lucretia Mott, Merion Friends Meeting, Quaker History, Underground Railroad, William Still

Our History Festival is taking shape! Plan to join us Saturday, May 20, 2017, 10 am to 3 pm, rain or shine, to revisit 1840s Quaker life. Learn about how…

Promises, Risks, and Teamwork: Quaker Involvement in the Antebellum Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad

By merion February 12, 2017 Abolitionism, Education and Outreach, Equality, History of Merion Meeting, Lower Merion History, Merion Friends Meeting, Quaker History, Racial equality, 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…

Overlooked in the Library: Anne Rice

By Jim Pettyjohn October 25, 2015 Anne Rice, Book Reviews, Education and Outreach, Fiction, Jesus, Meeting House, Meetinghouse Library

[reviews of books in our meetinghouse library] Listed Under: Fiction Author: Anne Rice Title(s): Christ the Lord – Out of Egypt Christ the Lord – Road to Cana After winning…

Overlooked in the Library: L. Michael White

By Jim Pettyjohn October 25, 2015 Bible, Book Reviews, Education and Outreach, History of Christianity, Jesus, L. Michael White, Meeting House, Meetinghouse Library

[reviews of books in our meetinghouse library] Listed Under: Bible Author: L. Michael White Title : From Jesus to Christianity This is a fascinating, very scholarly history of the development…

New seasons, new colors at Merion Friends Meeting

By merion October 25, 2015 Meeting House, Merion Friends Meeting

Our fall foliage is nearly as beautiful as our spring cherry blossoms, and we’ve uploaded some photos to Instagram to share some of the happiness: A photo posted by Merion…

A parable for today

By Eileen Carpenter June 14, 2015 Beliefs into Action (BIA), Community, Equality, Merion Friends Meeting, Political activism, Poverty, Prison reform, Racial equality, Social concerns

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…

Sterling Duns featured in the QuakerSpeaks video series

By merion April 16, 2015 Adult First Day Discussion Group, American Friends Service Committee, Bayard Rustin, Beliefs into Action (BIA), Community, Equality, Integrity, Merion Friends Meeting, Music, Peace, Political activism, Prison reform, Quaker History, Quaker spirituality, Racial equality, Social concerns

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…

Ending Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow: A Pendle Hill Conference

By merion April 16, 2015 Adult First Day Discussion Group, Beliefs into Action (BIA), Community, Education and Outreach, Equality, Pendle Hill retreat center, Political activism, Poverty, Prison reform, Racial equality, Social concerns

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…

John Andrew Gallery to speak on William Penn

By merion March 22, 2015 Uncategorized

Merion Friends Meeting is very pleased to announce that John Andrew Gallery will be reprising his lecture, “William Penn: America’s First Real Estate Agent” during Haverford Quarterly Meeting’s meeting for…