Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Richmond, VA

Richmond Friends Meeting

Richmond Friends Meeting

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Richmond, VA

Spiritual Formation Program 2017-2018

by | Jul 31, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education, Announcement, Baltimore Yearly Meeting

Registration is open!

The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program invites its participants into a deeper spiritual experience through retreats, spiritual community, reading spiritual classics, and individual spiritual practices.  The opening BYM retreat is September 8-10 (Friday evening through Sunday lunch) at Priest Field Center in West Virginia; car pools will be organized.  If you would like to learn more about the Spiritual Formation Program or register for the opening retreat, visit the BYM site: https://www.bym-rsf.org/events/spiritform/

The Spiritual Formation Program at the local RFM level includes a monthly large-group meeting that includes everyone. In addition to the large group meeting, most people join a small spiritual friendship group of 4 to 6 members who meet once a month to share spiritual journeys and daily spiritual practices.

Our first large group meeting will be held on Sunday, October 1, from 5-7 PM.

Our series focus will be “How has a Weighty Friend in each century of Quakerism found spiritual nurture?  How do this Friend’s writings and stories speak (or not) to my condition?”  We will focus on one Friend each month. The main text is Quaker Spirituality, edited by Douglas Steere, 1984 edition (or the briefer 2005 edition by HarperCollins Spiritual Classics). We will also read the Pendle Hill Pamphlets Margaret Fell Speaking by Hugh Barbour, and Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process by Thomas Gates.  (See attached Calendar.)    

From October through May, the monthly large group Spiritual Formation meetings will be on the 1st Sunday of the month from 5-7 PM beginning with a shared potluck.

If you wish to explore the possibility of joining Spiritual Formation at Richmond Friends Meeting, you are encouraged to contact Mary Fran Hughes-McIntyre or Ellen Arginteanu.

Please complete the form and submit electronically, or print out your form and return to meeting’s Adult Spiritual Education mailbox, by September 22, 2017.  In addition, paper copies are available at the meetinghouse.

Link to online registration form: Click here.

Calendar: RFM S F Calendar 2017-18

Registration form to print: RFM SF Reg Form-2017-18 To Print

The Quaker Splits III: What Keeps Us Together

by | May 24, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education, Committees

In recent months, Adult Spiritual Education sessions covered the history of splits and schisms in Quakerism, showing the Richmond Friends Meeting’s positions over the years.

On June 25 at 9:30am, Ministry & Worship Committee will continue this discussion.  ASE will provide a quick recap, from George Fox until, after the 1967 death of its pastor, Richmond Friends Meeting switched from being a pastored, programmed meeting into the unpastored, unprogrammed meeting we are today.  Then M&W will launch small discussion groups where all can share our individual beliefs and how they operate within a loving and very meaningful — if not always totally unified — meeting community.