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WEDNESDAY MORNING WORSHIP SHARING 10 a.m. (PT)

Join Friends from around the world as we respond to queries based on short readings. JOIN HERE

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

This week’s reading is from the Pendle Hill pamphlet Artist on the Witness Stand by Fritz Eichenberg.

(See Quaker Quotes and Queries below)

Orchard Lodge Mosaic

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We are continuing to hold our heads above water, financially, despite losing about $15,000 per month of budgeted income. We started out with some healthy reserves, we’ve cut back on expenditures and Friends have been exceedingly generous in offering financial support. But the pandemic and post-CZU fire challenges continue to put pressure on our ability to fulfill our mission.

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http://www.quakercenter.org/gifts-and-donations/

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Quaker Center
P.O. Box 686
Ben Lomond, CA 95005

GOING ONLINE!

Along with our DAILY Worship and our WEEKLY Worship Sharing, it appears that, for the foreseeable future, our MONTHLY Quaker programs will be presented online.

QUAKER QUOTES AND QUERIES

from the Pendle Hill pamphlet Artist on the Witness Stand by Fritz Eichenberg.

“To remain sensitive to the human problems surrounding us we will have to descend from our Ivory Towers into the street, perhaps onto the barricades and into a brush with the law. If you are not afflicted with a social conscience this may not be your idea of an artist’s life. But if you are born with certain convictions, your path, no matter how thorny, is laid out for you and you have to follow, even if your tender feet object.”

(from QuakerHistory.org)

Fritz Eichenberg (October 24, 1901 – November 30, 1990)
born in Cologne, Germany to a non-religious Jewish family, had his anti-war beliefs informed by his experiences growing up, however he joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940, after the sudden death of his wife.

He was an artist, particularly wood engraving, and had his work used prominently in The Catholic Worker throughout his life and beyond. For Eichenberg, art was completely intertwined with spirituality and conscience.

QUERIES:

How might art, spirituality and conscience be intertwined? How is one “afflicted” with a social conscience and what is the thorny path laid out for them?

[archive of QC’s Quaker Quotes]

SPIRIT RISING

Slideshow

$PHOTO BY LEN VAUGHN-LAHMAN SJ MERCURY NEWS SEPT 20 2004 (w/ LABYRINTH REvans) Nestled in the woods away from the Quaker Conference Center in the mountains outside of Ben Lomond, a newly consturcted labyrinth, made of simple gravel and river rock, opens in a clearing. The brainstorm of Tom Davis (background, right) , a member of the group, his permamnent creation replaces on made of rop. The labyrinth allows prayerful meditation around a predestined course, with one way in and out. Members Traci and Walter Hjelt Sullivan (cq\'d, no hyphen in last name) are on the labyrinth with Davis.$

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