Almost 50 SEYM Friends and family members enjoyed a long weekend at Wekiwa State Park over the long Thanksgiving weekend for our Half Yearly Meeting retreat. Participants of all ages, including almost a dozen youth, cooked, ate, played games, assembled…
Friends are encouraged to participate in any or all of several events addressing climate change that are happening this fall: the Conference of the Parties (COP)26, Gainesville Meeting’s Project Drawdown group, and Climate Change Theatre Action. Glasgow Climate Change Conference:…
More than 1,000 Friends participated in Britain Yearly Meeting’s (BYM) annual gathering between 19 Seventh Month and 8 Eighth Month. The Gathering theme for 2021 was: “For our comfort and discomfort: living equality and truth in a time of crisis.” Under…
A seminar on Race and the Death Penalty will be presented online by Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on Friday, September 10, at 7 pm EDT. Throughout our nation’s history of racial injustice - from slavery to lynchings…
The above title comes from an epistle that was developed by a group of friends in ‘A Quaker Response to Climate Collapse,’ a course offered by Woodbrooke, an international Quaker learning and research organization based in Britain. About 15 Friends…
SEYM's Youth and Young Adult Coordinator, Kody Hersh (he/they) is back to work following an extended leave of absence. The leave, which started in August 2020, allowed for a pause in Kody's three-year term during a time when COVID prevented…
The SEYM Publications Committee is pleased to offer this video of the 2021 Dwight and Ardis Michener Lecture, presented by Petra Doan on January 17th, 2021. In this 2021 SEYM Michener Lecture, Dr. Petra Doan shares reflections from her personal…
Peacebuilding en las Americas Coordinator Mónica A. Maher sends us this May 2021 update on PLA’s work in Central America. PLA is an Initiative of Friends Peace Teams that brings Alternative to Violence Project and trauma healing workshops and other…
The SEYM Publications Committee is pleased to offer this video of the 2021 J. Barnard Walton Lecture, presented by Emily Provance on April 10th, 2021, at our Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions. After a year of pandemic, social isolation and upheaval,…
Youth and families are invited to attend ‘Retreat Days!’ The Youth Committee is offering two regional retreat days this year instead of a full weekend retreat in order to minimize COVID transmission risk. • Saturday, June 19th, at Jonathan Dickinson…