Dear Friends, Vancouver Meeting is hosting two special event in the coming weeks, and we want you to be there! Please save these dates: 1) Sunday November 6th, 12:15pm, on zoom: Vancouver Monthly Meeting is hosting a Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) virtual workshop: “Living in Right Relationship with the Living World Continue Reading
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FLGBTQC – Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC) is a Quaker faith community within the Religious Society of Friends. FLGBTQC deeply honors, affirms, and upholds that of God in all people. We seek to know that of God within ourselves and others. We seek to express God’s truth in the Continue Reading
Reflections on the Blanket Exercise: a Gift of Communities Coming Together for Reconciliation
On June 9th, 2018, Vancouver Monthly Meeting gathered with the Vancouver Unitarian community on unceded Musqueam and Coast Salish territory in a beautiful intergenerational Blanket Exercise. The Blanket Exercise is a teaching tool developed by KAIROS, a network of representatives from ten churches focused on ecological justice and human rights. Continue Reading
The Blanket Exercise, Saturday June 9th
June 9 KBE poster The Reconciliation Committee would like to invite you to join in a Blanket Exercise on Saturday June 9th, 2018. The event will be held at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver on W 49th avenue at 9:45am, and will be followed by a potluck lunch. All are Continue Reading
Summer offerings at Ben Lomond
Local Friends might be interested in the offerings of the Ben Lomond Quaker Center in California! Coming up this summer: Ben Lomond Quaker Center is offering a $50 discount to both campers who register as friends (or siblings) for Quaker and Service Camp from Saturday, June 24th- Saturday, July Continue Reading
How And Why I Am A Quaker
by Beth Lopez I was raised Catholic. I remember kneeling beside my mother reciting a decade of the rosary before bed every night. At 14 I thought of becoming a nun. When I was 16, I realized that the church claimed to have answers to all the important questions but Continue Reading
Standing Against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
On November 19, 2016, some Vancouver Monthly Meeting Friends gathered for the “Stop Kinder Morgan – No Consent. No Pipeline” march and rally. Prior to this event, we also participated in the pre-rally multi-faith fellowship and communion service held at the Spirit of Life Lutheran Church.
Synthetic Biology – Further Reading
OUR FUTURE, NATURE’S FUTURE, AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY (Handout for the Synthetic Biology seminars by Fred Bass, Oct 30, 2016) Definition of synthetic biology: Synthetic biology goes beyond transferring genes from one organism to another (genetic engineering) to using a variety of biological and technical strategies to create new organisms and biological Continue Reading
Fall Retreat at the Quaker Meeting House, October 29 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016 • 10am to 3pm THEME Quakers living in modern times PROGRAMME Morning session • 10 am to 12 noon The morning session looks at aspects of Quakerism applied to modern times. Tim Bartoo will introduce the topic. Participants are invited to think about how this theme relates Continue Reading
Synthetic Biology Seminars Oct 30 and Nov 16
OUR FUTURE, NATURE’S FUTURE, AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Fred Bass, MD, MSci, DSci will offer an introduction to synthetic biology and related issues, followed by discussion with the audience. Given the accelerating investment, research, and development of synthetic biology; its profound capacity to change life by manipulating genetic structures and processes; Continue Reading