Southeastern Yearly Meeting, gathered at our annual sessions, minuted our opposition to four recently enacted Florida laws that cause harm to LGBTQ people and people of color; and are a serious setback to building a just and compassionate society: ‘Parental…
Dear Friends, Tampa Friends ask Friends in Florida to begin an immediate phone campaign to Florida state Representatives, Senators, and to Governor DeSantis regarding specific draft legislation currently under consideration by the legislature that targets LGBTQ people. Please see the…
The SEYM Publications Committee is pleased to offer this video of the 2022 Dwight & Ardis Michener Lecture, presented by Nancy Fennell on January 16, 2022. About 100 Friends gathered online to hear the lecture, which was sponsored by the…
The Clerk of Ft. Myers Meeting, Richard Frechette, sends this news of how their meeting has adapted to find worship space during the pandemic. He writes: "I thought Friends in SEYM might be interested in hearing about the current worship…
As SEYM Youth and Young Adult Coordinator, I am frequently asked: How can meetings and worship groups attract more families with children? In particular, what does it look like to prepare a welcome for families with children if your meeting…
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…