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The 2018 Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, “Making Room for Spirit,” was delivered by Arthur Larrabee of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.

Listen to the mp3 audio here:

The talk explores spiritual practices which we can use to make room for Spirit in our lives.

“God and Spirit are everywhere present,” Arthur explains,” but we get caught up in patterns of living that make it difficult to access Spirit and spiritual energy. For many of us, there is ‘no room in the inn’ for Spirit.”

“As a Quaker, three spiritual practices which I have found helpful in deepening my spiritual journey are the practice of dissolving attachments, the practice of ‘dying’ into fear, and the practice of embracing paradox. In my talk I share my experiences with these spiritual practices, how they have come into my life, and how I have used them to make room for Spirit.”

2013 Yearly Meeting Quaker Study, with Ben Pink Dandelion

“The End of the World, the Beginning of Quakerism, and What Happened Next”

2012 Quaker Study – Radicalizing Spirit: The Challenge of Contemporary Quakerism

Below are the links to the audio from Jeff Dudiak’s Quaker Study from the 2012 national gathering.

George Fox and other early Friends “opened up” the Christianity of their day in an ambiguous way. Was their revelation a renewal of something old or the introduction of something new, a deepening or a departing? The tensions among our current, diverse “branches” of Friends hang, to some large degree, on which interpretation we prefer. But is this a forced, and false, choice? These studies are an attempt to trace out a dynamic that runs through the Bible to earlier Friends and into our own times that, far from trying to resolve this tension, requires it as essential to the “radicalizing spirit” that is Quakerism at its best.

Here are the five lectures. Click to play, or right-click and save file as… to save to your computer.

2011 SPG Lecture – The Moral Economy

Marilyn Manzer delivered the 2011 Sunderland P. Gardner lecture on “The Moral Economy” to a full house at the Fountain Performing Arts Centre at King’s Edgehill School on Wednesday, August 10th. In describing her life-long journey of concern on this issue, she wove together threads of economics, history, philosophy, music and beauty and presented an alternative vision to our current greed-based economy. The lecture is published as a Canadian Quaker Pamphlet.

Video

2017 Quaker Study – “Palestine-Israel” w/ Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta	Link
2017 SPG Lecture – “Falling into Grace” by Steve Fick	Link
2016 CYM Bible Study Series w/Kate Johnston, Part I	Link
2016 CYM Bible Study Series w/Kate Johnston, Part II	Link
2016 CYM Bible Study Series w/Kate Johnston, Part III	Link
2016 CYM Bible Study Series w/Kate Johnston, Part IV	Link
2016 CYM Bible Study Series w/Kate Johnston, Part V	Link
2016 SPG Lecture – “Continuing Revelation: Quaking with Grace and Joy in Modern Times” by Maggie Knight	Link
2015 SPG Lecture – “Decolonising Land and Soul: A Quaker Testimony” by Alastair McInstosh	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Part I	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Part II	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Part III	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Part IV	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Part V	Link
2014 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Mark Burch, Powerpoint	Link
2013 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Ben Pink Dandelion, Part I	Link
2013 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Ben Pink Dandelion, Part II	Link
2013 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Ben Pink Dandelion, Part III	Link
2013 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Ben Pink Dandelion, Part IV	Link
2013 CYM Quaker Study Series w/Ben Pink Dandelion, Part V	Link
2013 SPG Lecture w/Caroline Balderston Parry	Link
The Search for the Sacred (about Quakerism)	Link

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