Come Join us June 29, 2025

Blue Moon Potluck Breakfast: 9:00 am
Meeting for Worship: 10:00 am
Fellowship: 11:00 am
All are welcome; we would love to meet you!

Minute Approved by Valley Meeting 6/22/25:

Traditionally, Friends (Quakers) have spoken vigorously, emphatically about what they have perceived as evils of their times, such as slavery, the absence of women’s rights, unequal civil rights, inequalities, injustices, and war. Often these campaigns have begun with the persuasive voices of one or two members of a Meeting (congregation) speaking with their friends and neighbors, in the language of the time, as they lead a search for “God’s Truth.”

Importantly, even on those fundamental issues, we would like to believe that Friends, believing in “Continuing Revelation” of the Truth, listened thoughtfully to the words and ideas of their opponents to understand a different way of hearing the Truth.

In other words, one can both disagree and argue strongly, while also seeking The Light Within, present in each and every person.

Today, in 2025, our society is fractured into at least two parts, and one side hears a magic word/label, such as “conservative” or “liberal,” and immediately erupts into a volcano of vituperation, often yelling to inform their friends of their righteous indignation and their opponents of their obvious errors. We thus increase our entrenched views and fortify our differences.

We suggest that, while holding strongly to our Truths, we can respectively seek a middle ground of understanding, and find the words to understand common concerns and truths.

In the words of Walt Whitman, as quoted by the immortal but fictional Ted Lasso,

“Be curious, not judgmental…”