Dear Freddy Friends: Here is my 2009 State of Society of Fredericton Worship Group report for you to OK. I hope it's OK.
Edith
2009 State of Society Report of
FREDERICTON WORSHIP GROUP
Fredericton Worship Group is a thriving community of an average of ten people who meet weekly in silent worship followed by a sharing of experiences. We were united in grieving over the tragic death of John McKendy and dealing with it in many ways. We hosted a NB Monthly Meeting memorial service for him at St. Thomas University. We kept in touch with John’s widow Carol Wakeham and their daughters Laura and Colleen and held them in the Light. We recommended that John post-humously receive the Ron Wiebe Award for Restorative Justice, and Carol and Colleen went to Newfoundland to receive it on John’s behalf. Out of discussions with STU faculty, the idea of instituting a John McKendy Peace Centre at STU, was to be realized and bear fruit in 2010.
We explored new venues in which to worship that might be more inviting to inquirers than our homes, and so we worshipped in two rooms in town for a while, but settled on the Rotunda room of a building at STU. New attenders did indeed come, including a former student of John’s. He also joined the two members of our group who have been facilitating Alternatives to Violence Project workshops at Dorchester Penitentiary, consequently becoming a vibrant facilitator himself.
We have maintained a friendly, caring community of Members and Attenders and Inquirers. We were happy to welcome Sandy Zelazny, a former Junior Member of NBMM, into full Membership. Michael Miller was invited to be the Quaker representative on the Spiritual and Religious Care Advisory Committee of Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital. Some of us joined Martha McClure’s series of Quaker studies on the Peace Testimony, an occasion to bring the group together to enrich our experience of Quakerism, and it is hoped that it will be resumed.
Edith Miller
Michael Miller
448 Golf Club Rd.
Fredericton, NB E3B 5Z7
memiller@rogers.com
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
CELEBRATION OF FAITH IN DIVERSITY
Thomas University together with Fredericton`s faith communities including first Nations, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists, Baha`is, Hindus, Quakers, and others invite you to attend a full-day, multi-faith CELEBRATION OF FAITH IN DIVERSITY. It will take place from 9 to 5 ,Thursday, April 8, 2010 in the Kinsella Auditorium McCain Hall, St. Thomas University.
Take the day off or drop in when you can! Representatives from different traditions will present communal opening and closing ceremonies, short lectures on the lived experience of each faith in the Canadian context, afternoon celebrations and a pot-luck lunch. Fredericton Quakers were asked to participate in this event by Matt Clarke, a student in Dr. Bain`s religion class at STU. Vince Zelazny and Michael Miller are helping to organize a talk on Quakers at 11AM and an audio visual presentation at 3:30 PM. This event is the first of its kind in Fredericton, and students as well as the general public are invited to join with us for our day of celebration.
For further information, please contact Dr. Alexander Bain at
Take the day off or drop in when you can! Representatives from different traditions will present communal opening and closing ceremonies, short lectures on the lived experience of each faith in the Canadian context, afternoon celebrations and a pot-luck lunch. Fredericton Quakers were asked to participate in this event by Matt Clarke, a student in Dr. Bain`s religion class at STU. Vince Zelazny and Michael Miller are helping to organize a talk on Quakers at 11AM and an audio visual presentation at 3:30 PM. This event is the first of its kind in Fredericton, and students as well as the general public are invited to join with us for our day of celebration.
For further information, please contact Dr. Alexander Bain at
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friends World Committee, Northeast Regional Gathering
Friends World Committee, Northeast Regional Gathering
Hosted by Atlantic Friends Gathering
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB
May 21-24, 2010
“Turning the World Right-Side Up:” *
Exploring the Role of Women in Re-Balancing Economic Priorities Toward Right Relationship with the Whole Commonwealth of Life
Toward a Moral Economy
From domination, competition, and violence to respect, nurture, and peace.
Social and Economic Change
The rise of women and the challenge to male domination in our time is a societal change of momentous consequences. After ten thousand years of patriarchy, this unbalanced, unfair, and damaging arrangement of spiritual, social, and economic authority is changing. This change is well underway in many important respects, but has yet a long way to go in the conduct of the economy.
The Spiritual Connection
In a profound sense both economics and ecology are domains of relationship. There is a deep sense of right relationship within a fully developed understanding of these domains. Our spiritual traditions teach us that in right relationship we touch the fullness of human meaning and the presence of the Divine.
Guiding Questions
How does the conduct of the economy need to change so its operation will serve the common good of all peoples and the whole realm of life?
How do Quaker testimonies advance the role of women in helping establish an economy based on respect, nurture, security, and peace?
*The title of our program is taken from the book by Patrick Kerans & John Kearney, Turning the World Right-Side Up: Science, Community and Democracy, Halifax, Fernside Publishing, 2006
Outline of Program
Friday Evening
Background and overview – Barbara Aikman & Keith Helmuth
Plenary (open to the public): Marilyn Keyes Roper – How the Sacred Feminine Was Uprooted in Western Culture: Remnants and Renewal
Saturday Morning
Geoffrey Garver & Keith Helmuth – Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy
Saturday Afternoon
An intergenerational, experiential activity connecting with the natural world.
Saturday Evening
Keynote Plenary (open to the public): Ellie Perkins – Working Together Toward a Moral Economy: The Importance of Diversity
Sunday Morning
Meeting for Worship
Plenary (open to the public): Imelda Perley – Women and Right Relationship in First Nation Community Life
Sunday Afternoon
Jane Orion Smith - From Wrong to Right Relationship – What are the Means to the Ends?
In considering how to move towards “turning the world right-side up,” the means are critical to the ends. Friends may be clearer on their vision of a “peaceable kingdom” than on the way to get there, which will require engaging many ways of seeing, thinking and doing. Process is central to both feminist and Quaker methodologies. In this session, we will engage in exercises to help us envision the means, and some of the ends, toward right relationships within creation.
Sunday Evening
Family variety show with singing and skits.
Monday Morning
Meeting for Worship and final reflections.
Presenters
Marilyn Keyes Roper (NBMM), MS Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania: Coordinator of "War or Peace," a three year program of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; conducting research on the evidence for the origins of war.
Ellie Perkins (Toronto MM), Professor of Economics, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Special interest in ecological and feminist economics.
Imelda Perley (Neqotkuk First Nation), Lecturer, Mi’kmaq-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick; Community educator in Maliseet language and traditional culture.
Geoffrey Garver (Buffalo MM, attender at Montreal MM), Consultant on Environmental Law and International Trade; Instructor in Law at Laval University and University of Quebec. Contributing author to Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.
Keith Helmuth (NBMM), Secretary, Quaker Institute for the Future. Contributing author to Right Relationship.
Jane Orion Smith (Vancouver Island MM) serves as the General Secretary of Canadian Friends Service Committee, a committee of Canadian Yearly Meeting. She is a sojourning member of Toronto Monthly Meeting.
Recommending Reading
Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, New York, Harper, 1988. The first book for the general reader that brings together the archaeological and historical evidence for the loss of gender equality in Western culture and the rise of patriarchy, along with war making and environmental destruction. Lays out a hopeful program for the recovery of gender balance, and a caring and peace- making society. Became a best seller when published.
Flinders, Carol Lee, Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium, New York, HarperCollins, 2002. This is gem of book. Covers some of the same material as The Chalice and the Blade but is much better written with a more profound understanding of culture. Carol Flinders is the co-author of the enormously popular cookbook, Laurel’s Kitchen. I don’t know if she has Quaker connections, but she references Quakers and John Woolman several times in Rebalancing the World.
Nelson, Julie A., Economics for Humans, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. This, too, is an excellent book. In 164 pages she provides an incisive and easy to understand guide to the field of economics, and a powerful critique of both the right and left ideologies from a feminist point of view. The author is a bon fide economist who knows the field inside-out. She is a leader in the field of feminist economics. This is a book for the general reader, well written, highly accessible, hopeful and practical.
Folbre, Nancy, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values, New York, The New Press, 2001. “As paid work and market values come to dominate society, how can we ensure that people are truly cared for? Nancy Folbre provides a compelling answer. Along the way, she . . . exposes the ground on which traditional economists dare not tread, and moves feminism a step closer to its longstanding ideals of a better and fairer society. . . . Nancy Folbre is a must read!” (Juliet Schor, Lecturer, Harvard University)
Eisler, Raine, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2007. Raine Eisler returns with a major book on economics from the feminist perspective. She builds on her analysis of the “dominator/partnership” dualism that she developed in The Chalice and the Blade, and shows why a decent future depends on the reemergence of the partnership dynamic in economic life.
Prepared by Keith Helmuth
Friends World Committee, Northeast Regional Gathering
Hosted by Atlantic Friends Gathering
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB
May 21-24, 2010
“Turning the World Right-Side Up:” *
Exploring the Role of Women in Re-Balancing Economic Priorities Toward Right Relationship with the Whole Commonwealth of Life
Toward a Moral Economy
From domination, competition, and violence to respect, nurture, and peace.
Social and Economic Change
The rise of women and the challenge to male domination in our time is a societal change of momentous consequences. After ten thousand years of patriarchy, this unbalanced, unfair, and damaging arrangement of spiritual, social, and economic authority is changing. This change is well underway in many important respects, but has yet a long way to go in the conduct of the economy.
The Spiritual Connection
In a profound sense both economics and ecology are domains of relationship. There is a deep sense of right relationship within a fully developed understanding of these domains. Our spiritual traditions teach us that in right relationship we touch the fullness of human meaning and the presence of the Divine.
Guiding Questions
How does the conduct of the economy need to change so its operation will serve the common good of all peoples and the whole realm of life?
How do Quaker testimonies advance the role of women in helping establish an economy based on respect, nurture, security, and peace?
*The title of our program is taken from the book by Patrick Kerans & John Kearney, Turning the World Right-Side Up: Science, Community and Democracy, Halifax, Fernside Publishing, 2006
Plus
Intergenerational activities, children’s program, group discussions, a visioning exercise, and important resources for further study and discernment.
Registration information
Also available at; http://atlantic.quaker.ca/afg
Register on line at www.fwccamericas.org
For more information re registration contact Barbara Aikman baikman@eastlink.ca
902 542 3124
Deadline April 30, 2010
Weekend rate per person based on double occupancy $210.00
Single person in a single room $230.00
For program, three nights, all meals, including breakfast and lunch on Monday.
Accommodations are dormitory style with shared bathrooms. All bedding, linen and towels provided. A cot for children is available for no extra charge, one per room. Dogs are allowed on campus on a lease but not in any buildings. Meals are cafeteria style. There is an airport in Fredericton and Friends can be picked up there with pre arrangement.
For those not sleeping or eating at the facility there is a day rate charge of $20.00 per day.
As AFG has a policy for children attending free we will be asking for donations toward their food costs. UNB will charge half price for those under 11 years of age and under and full price for those 12 and up.
Make checks payable to; Annapolis Valley Monthly Meeting
Send registrations to; Barbara Aikman
1869 Melanson Rd, Wolfville, NS, Canada B4P 2R1
Rates are in Canadian and American dollars
Registration form:
Names
Children’s names and ages
Address
Phones
Email contact
If needing pick up from airport, state travel plans and we will contact you.
Fill in one of the following options;
1.)Day fee only: No meals or accommodation $ 20.00 per person per day
Total $ ________
2.)Full weekend package; Double occupancy$__________ ($210.00)
Single Occupancy$__________ ($230.00)
3.) Accommodation and or Meals
Single room; please check which nights (Please check which ones)
Per night $40.00 X _____ Friday
_____ Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
_____ Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total: (program fee) $30.00 + ___________ + _________ = __________
Double room please check Meals please check
Per person $31.00 X _____ Friday
Per night _____ Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
_____ Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total; (program fee) $30.00 + __________ = __________ Tax included
4.) Meals only Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total : (program fee) $30.00 +________________= ____________
Times the number of people registering = $______________
Donation___________
Please advice of special dietary needs; vegetarian, diabetic, gluten free etc.
Other special considerations:
Hosted by Atlantic Friends Gathering
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB
May 21-24, 2010
“Turning the World Right-Side Up:” *
Exploring the Role of Women in Re-Balancing Economic Priorities Toward Right Relationship with the Whole Commonwealth of Life
Toward a Moral Economy
From domination, competition, and violence to respect, nurture, and peace.
Social and Economic Change
The rise of women and the challenge to male domination in our time is a societal change of momentous consequences. After ten thousand years of patriarchy, this unbalanced, unfair, and damaging arrangement of spiritual, social, and economic authority is changing. This change is well underway in many important respects, but has yet a long way to go in the conduct of the economy.
The Spiritual Connection
In a profound sense both economics and ecology are domains of relationship. There is a deep sense of right relationship within a fully developed understanding of these domains. Our spiritual traditions teach us that in right relationship we touch the fullness of human meaning and the presence of the Divine.
Guiding Questions
How does the conduct of the economy need to change so its operation will serve the common good of all peoples and the whole realm of life?
How do Quaker testimonies advance the role of women in helping establish an economy based on respect, nurture, security, and peace?
*The title of our program is taken from the book by Patrick Kerans & John Kearney, Turning the World Right-Side Up: Science, Community and Democracy, Halifax, Fernside Publishing, 2006
Outline of Program
Friday Evening
Background and overview – Barbara Aikman & Keith Helmuth
Plenary (open to the public): Marilyn Keyes Roper – How the Sacred Feminine Was Uprooted in Western Culture: Remnants and Renewal
Saturday Morning
Geoffrey Garver & Keith Helmuth – Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy
Saturday Afternoon
An intergenerational, experiential activity connecting with the natural world.
Saturday Evening
Keynote Plenary (open to the public): Ellie Perkins – Working Together Toward a Moral Economy: The Importance of Diversity
Sunday Morning
Meeting for Worship
Plenary (open to the public): Imelda Perley – Women and Right Relationship in First Nation Community Life
Sunday Afternoon
Jane Orion Smith - From Wrong to Right Relationship – What are the Means to the Ends?
In considering how to move towards “turning the world right-side up,” the means are critical to the ends. Friends may be clearer on their vision of a “peaceable kingdom” than on the way to get there, which will require engaging many ways of seeing, thinking and doing. Process is central to both feminist and Quaker methodologies. In this session, we will engage in exercises to help us envision the means, and some of the ends, toward right relationships within creation.
Sunday Evening
Family variety show with singing and skits.
Monday Morning
Meeting for Worship and final reflections.
Presenters
Marilyn Keyes Roper (NBMM), MS Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania: Coordinator of "War or Peace," a three year program of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; conducting research on the evidence for the origins of war.
Ellie Perkins (Toronto MM), Professor of Economics, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Special interest in ecological and feminist economics.
Imelda Perley (Neqotkuk First Nation), Lecturer, Mi’kmaq-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick; Community educator in Maliseet language and traditional culture.
Geoffrey Garver (Buffalo MM, attender at Montreal MM), Consultant on Environmental Law and International Trade; Instructor in Law at Laval University and University of Quebec. Contributing author to Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.
Keith Helmuth (NBMM), Secretary, Quaker Institute for the Future. Contributing author to Right Relationship.
Jane Orion Smith (Vancouver Island MM) serves as the General Secretary of Canadian Friends Service Committee, a committee of Canadian Yearly Meeting. She is a sojourning member of Toronto Monthly Meeting.
Recommending Reading
Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, New York, Harper, 1988. The first book for the general reader that brings together the archaeological and historical evidence for the loss of gender equality in Western culture and the rise of patriarchy, along with war making and environmental destruction. Lays out a hopeful program for the recovery of gender balance, and a caring and peace- making society. Became a best seller when published.
Flinders, Carol Lee, Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium, New York, HarperCollins, 2002. This is gem of book. Covers some of the same material as The Chalice and the Blade but is much better written with a more profound understanding of culture. Carol Flinders is the co-author of the enormously popular cookbook, Laurel’s Kitchen. I don’t know if she has Quaker connections, but she references Quakers and John Woolman several times in Rebalancing the World.
Nelson, Julie A., Economics for Humans, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. This, too, is an excellent book. In 164 pages she provides an incisive and easy to understand guide to the field of economics, and a powerful critique of both the right and left ideologies from a feminist point of view. The author is a bon fide economist who knows the field inside-out. She is a leader in the field of feminist economics. This is a book for the general reader, well written, highly accessible, hopeful and practical.
Folbre, Nancy, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values, New York, The New Press, 2001. “As paid work and market values come to dominate society, how can we ensure that people are truly cared for? Nancy Folbre provides a compelling answer. Along the way, she . . . exposes the ground on which traditional economists dare not tread, and moves feminism a step closer to its longstanding ideals of a better and fairer society. . . . Nancy Folbre is a must read!” (Juliet Schor, Lecturer, Harvard University)
Eisler, Raine, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2007. Raine Eisler returns with a major book on economics from the feminist perspective. She builds on her analysis of the “dominator/partnership” dualism that she developed in The Chalice and the Blade, and shows why a decent future depends on the reemergence of the partnership dynamic in economic life.
Prepared by Keith Helmuth
Friends World Committee, Northeast Regional Gathering
Hosted by Atlantic Friends Gathering
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB
May 21-24, 2010
“Turning the World Right-Side Up:” *
Exploring the Role of Women in Re-Balancing Economic Priorities Toward Right Relationship with the Whole Commonwealth of Life
Toward a Moral Economy
From domination, competition, and violence to respect, nurture, and peace.
Social and Economic Change
The rise of women and the challenge to male domination in our time is a societal change of momentous consequences. After ten thousand years of patriarchy, this unbalanced, unfair, and damaging arrangement of spiritual, social, and economic authority is changing. This change is well underway in many important respects, but has yet a long way to go in the conduct of the economy.
The Spiritual Connection
In a profound sense both economics and ecology are domains of relationship. There is a deep sense of right relationship within a fully developed understanding of these domains. Our spiritual traditions teach us that in right relationship we touch the fullness of human meaning and the presence of the Divine.
Guiding Questions
How does the conduct of the economy need to change so its operation will serve the common good of all peoples and the whole realm of life?
How do Quaker testimonies advance the role of women in helping establish an economy based on respect, nurture, security, and peace?
*The title of our program is taken from the book by Patrick Kerans & John Kearney, Turning the World Right-Side Up: Science, Community and Democracy, Halifax, Fernside Publishing, 2006
Plus
Intergenerational activities, children’s program, group discussions, a visioning exercise, and important resources for further study and discernment.
Registration information
Also available at; http://atlantic.quaker.ca/afg
Register on line at www.fwccamericas.org
For more information re registration contact Barbara Aikman baikman@eastlink.ca
902 542 3124
Deadline April 30, 2010
Weekend rate per person based on double occupancy $210.00
Single person in a single room $230.00
For program, three nights, all meals, including breakfast and lunch on Monday.
Accommodations are dormitory style with shared bathrooms. All bedding, linen and towels provided. A cot for children is available for no extra charge, one per room. Dogs are allowed on campus on a lease but not in any buildings. Meals are cafeteria style. There is an airport in Fredericton and Friends can be picked up there with pre arrangement.
For those not sleeping or eating at the facility there is a day rate charge of $20.00 per day.
As AFG has a policy for children attending free we will be asking for donations toward their food costs. UNB will charge half price for those under 11 years of age and under and full price for those 12 and up.
Make checks payable to; Annapolis Valley Monthly Meeting
Send registrations to; Barbara Aikman
1869 Melanson Rd, Wolfville, NS, Canada B4P 2R1
Rates are in Canadian and American dollars
Registration form:
Names
Children’s names and ages
Address
Phones
Email contact
If needing pick up from airport, state travel plans and we will contact you.
Fill in one of the following options;
1.)Day fee only: No meals or accommodation $ 20.00 per person per day
Total $ ________
2.)Full weekend package; Double occupancy$__________ ($210.00)
Single Occupancy$__________ ($230.00)
3.) Accommodation and or Meals
Single room; please check which nights (Please check which ones)
Per night $40.00 X _____ Friday
_____ Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
_____ Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total: (program fee) $30.00 + ___________ + _________ = __________
Double room please check Meals please check
Per person $31.00 X _____ Friday
Per night _____ Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
_____ Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total; (program fee) $30.00 + __________ = __________ Tax included
4.) Meals only Saturday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Sunday Breakfast ___ $8.00
Lunch_______$11.00
Supper_______$15.00
Monday Breakfast_____$8.00
Lunch________$11.00
Total : (program fee) $30.00 +________________= ____________
Times the number of people registering = $______________
Donation___________
Please advice of special dietary needs; vegetarian, diabetic, gluten free etc.
Other special considerations:
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