Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)
10/03/2023: The meeting's web site is being transferred to a new web host. The new web site will be reachable at www.memphisfriendsmeeting.org. The QuakerCloud web host will cease operation 12/31/2023.
The best way to find out if silent, or unprogrammed, worship speaks to your condition is to experience it. Everyone is welcome! We affirm and acknowledge the wholeness of all people, including their gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
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Unprogrammed worship is silent worship. We enter the meeting room silently. Our first task when worship begins is to center down, to still the clamor of the world, to turn our attention to the inner voice.
Updated 03/12/2023
Greetings, Friends,
At the 03/12/2023 meeting for business, Friends agreed on the following:
Memphis Friends, are you logging in to the web site to see all information? If not, you are missing out on resources like:
The Communications Committee is in the process of building an online version of the card catalog.
Meeting Times
11 am Sundays (Zoom and in-person)
Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)
7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.
What's New
Recently our online worshippers have noted a deterioration in the audibility of messages from in-person Friends. At the 8/6 worship a borrowed microphone seemed to improve sound, and the Communications Committee is in search for good tech solutions. Please let Carol or another member of the communications committee (Kali, Blake, or Mallory) know if you have suggestions to offer. Friends interested in this topic may be interested in the recent podcast episode on Zooming among Friends - https://quakerpodcast.com/quakers-and-zoom/
Quaker Aesthetics
by Khyber
Have you ever wondered what a Quaker aesthetics could be? It’s a matter of discernment. Traditionally Quakers created form and substance through prohibition and subtraction. Proscriptions about arts and crafts started in the late 1600s to show that we were not interested in show. Up until the
1800’s, Quakers were invested in plainness— an open declaration that we weren’t engaged with the concerns of the world. But we were very concerned to show the world that we weren’t involved in it.
Joanne's meeting for learning on global warming and climate change drew from the recent UofM physics lecture and several NOVA programs Joanne uses in her classes:
The 7/16 Meeting for Learning focused on the six very distinct but positive experiences of Memphis Friends attending the SAYMA yearly sessions in Berea, KY. The slideshow included the "minute of thanks" that was included in the minutes (which are available in full on the sayma.org web site).
Memphis Friends are becoming acquainted with https://www.workaway.info/ in anticipation of the month-long stay in Memphis of a young Japanese traveler/musician who is currently living and working on the farm of some Alabama Quakers. Those interested in helping organize hospitality should contact Susan.
The opening message shared in meeting for worship on 7/9 was from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself:
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
Worship with us!
11 am Sundays (Zoom and in-person)
Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)
7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.
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