Meeting For Learning/Events 2025-2026
03/15/26 Meeting for Learning with Eric Mayer
“Misbehaving Quakers” series
Come join us for guided study of individuals and groups who resisted the norms of popular culture — figures who can inspire us today. No homework! We will read short passages together, and then have a discussion about what emerges for each of us from the reading.
First up, Mary Dyer (c. 1611–1660), arrested for public preaching, and later banished from Massachusetts for her Quaker belief, Dyer was likely the first European martyr for religious freedom in the New World. An inspiration for her defiance against oppressive Puritan authority, her death helped end executions for reasons of belief.
02/15/26 Meeting for Learning with Norman Janes
The Quaker Speaks video “A Quaker Vision for Political Activism” will be shown following a discussion lead by Norm.
02/01/26 Meeting for Learning with Joe Kirkenir (PYM)
"Our Collective Impact"
Meeting for Learning strives to provide an effective program of religious education for adult members, attendees, and visitors to the Meeting.
Among other possibilities, the following topics will be explored:
Discuss how we listen for the voice of the Divine and know by discernment that voice separately from our ego.
Discuss the meaning of a “gathered” Meeting.
Explore the meaning of Spiritual Journey and share experiences.
Introduce the history of Quakerism.
Introduce the Peace Testimony and how we live it individually and collectively.
Explore and define what social action means in the world today for Quakers and other Peace Communities.
Introduce the Testimony on Simplicity and explore its meaning in our lives and the effect living in this way has on the world community.
Promote Pendle Hill awareness and involvement by creating a series or selecting several dates a year inviting Pendle Hill speakers.