All posts by Lyndon Back

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The Grimke Sisters; Quakers Who Made a Difference

On Sunday, January 17, at 10:00 Tim and Kristin Simmons will be leading a discussion on the life and works of Sara and Angelina Grimke as part of our continuing Forum Series, “Quakers Who Have Made a Difference.” The Grimke sisters grew up on a plantation in South Carolina in the early 1800’s, in a slave system they grew to abhor. They moved to Philadelphia and joined the Arch Street Meeting, and they were the first women to speak out in the north against the injustices of slavery from their own first hand experience. They dared to speak out in favor of women’s rights as well.

Children are welcome as this series is a joint project of our First Day School and our adult Meeting. Come and join the discussion.

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

Sunday Forum

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.

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June 22: FCNL, Friends’ Faithful Lobby

Joan Broadfield will be facilitating discussion at Old Haverford Forum this Sunday, June 22rd, at 10:00. The second speaker in our June forum series, Joan who is the PYM representative to Friends Council on National Legislation (FCNL) will talk about the organization that brings Friends’ concerns to Capitol Hill.

Please join us for an update on the important work that Friends are doing in Washington DC and how we can get involved.

Sunday Forum

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.

Sunday 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.