Lyn Back (right) introduced Pat Clark (left), who was formerly with American Friends Service Committee, and recently served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine the events around the massacre in Greensboro NC in 1979. She visited Old Haverford on March 8th to give an account of the healing process that resulted from the Commission’s work 25 years after that incident, and to provide some perspective on how we can move forward from where we are, with respect to racism in our communities and our country.
Category Archives: Sunday Forum
Sept 21: Fall Harvest: Social and Forum
On September 21, please join us at 10:00 for a Fall Forum discussion led by Bruce Livingston, and Ken Snyder, both long time members of the meeting and avid gardeners. Gardening will be the general topic, but the details will be a surprise to us, and possibly to them as well.
After Meeting for Worship, celebrate the end of the summer, the beginning of fall, and the rich bounty from the garden by joining us for our annual harvest luncheon, hosted by Old Haverford Community Gardeners. Share in the delicious feast, catch up with friends, and admire our freshly painted middle room.
Forum is at 10:00, Meeting for Worship is at 11:00, and our harvest feast is at noon. Don’t miss it.
Lyn Back
Lynback58@yahoo.com
June 29th, Don Davis, Archivist from AFSC
On Sunday, June 29th, Don Davis, the archivist at the American Friends Service Committee will lead our discussion. Don has been at AFSC since 2006, and had over twenty experience working in various archives. He says his love of history, especially the lesser known facts behind big events and movements keeps him interested. Don will be telling and and showing some of those lesser known (but no less important) stories from AFSC’s closet, after almost 100 years of history.
See you on Sunday.
June 15 Forum: “Sharing Our Spiritual Journey”
Barry Crosmo, General Secretary of Friends General Conference, will be our guest speaker. Barry is a member of Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia. Join us for an interesting and lively discussion.
March 30th, Mike Brenner: A New Look at the Human Tragedy
On Sunday, March 30th, at 10:00, Mike Brenner will lead a discussion that focuses on tales from ancient Mesopotamia as ways to understand the sources of self destruction in our human condition.
Mike has been attending Old Haverford Meeting for several months. He has no prior Quaker affiliation. Trained and fully credentialed in Architecture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Mike works privately with people in an educational model, with a spiritual orientation.
Mike is writing a book, “Once Upon a Time. . .Using Our Oldest Tales to Free Ourselves” which re-tells ancient stories from Mesopotamia, not as pure myth, but as essentially factual accounts in poetic language. The stories, according to Mike, illuminate the source of all the means of self-destruction we engage in …and a possible way out of the tragic human condition.
Come and learn more about Mike’s explorations and discoveries in this fascinating forum.
“The Last Runaway,” Book Club Forum April 6th
On Sunday, April 6th at 10:00, members of Old Haverford Meeting’s Worship and Ministry Committee will lead a discussion of Trace Chevalier’s “The Last Runaway.”
Honor Bright, the main character, is a Quaker who leaves England for America. She lands in Ohio in 1850 and inadvertently gets involved with the Underground Railroad. It is a story about faith, love, family, friendship, conviction, and forging one’s individual path, often independently from family and community.
Please read the book so you can join the discussion. If you don’t want to buy it you may be able to get it from the library, or there will be a few copies available in the Meetinghouse to sign out. Ask Jana Llewellyn at
- janallewellyn [at] yahoo.com
for more details.
See you on April 6th at 10:00 at Old Haverford Friend Meeting. Forum will be followed by Meeting for Worship at 11:00.