Join us on November 11, 2022 from 9:30-11:30am at the West Falmouth Meetinghouse or remotely on Zoom for a Seeker’s Day on the topic of what the Quaker Peace Testimony means to each of us. This special Seeker’s Day will include worship sharing and small group discussions. Here are some quotes to serve as starting points for our reflections:

We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fighting with outward weapons for any end or under any pretense whatever; this is our testimony to the whole world.    — George Fox and others, to Charles II of England, 1660/61

“May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.”    — John Woolman (1720-1772), from “A Plea for the Poor,” Part X

It is a mistake to call Quakers ‘non-resisters’ or ‘passivists.’ They are neither. They do not face any giant evil with a passive attitude. They seek always to organize and to level against it the most effective forces there are. They know as well as anybody does that instincts and passions are not changed by miracle and that peace cannot prevail where injustice and hate are rampant. They seek to do away with war by first doing away with the causes and occasions for it; that is, by removing the fundamental grounds from which war springs, by eliminating the roots and seeds of it in the social order, and by forming an atmosphere and climate that make war unthinkable.    — Rufus M. Jones, The Faith and Practice of the Quakers (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928),103.

The full opportunity before us is to create a nonviolent world. We’ll do that through cultivating a life-affirming worldview and building life-affirming structures and systems – ways to be and work together that are cooperative and mutually enhancing.    — Scott Brown, Active Peace (Santa Margarita CA, Collins Foundation Press, 2016) p. 40

Please note that masks are required at the West Falmouth Meetinghouse.