Below are the links to the audio from Jeff Dudiak’s Quaker Bible Study from this year’s 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.

mp3 files Monday audio file Tuesday audio file Wednesday audio file Thursday audio file Friday audio file

Thanks for the photos, Bruce. It looks just like yearly meeting. Balancing, food co-op, familiar Friends. I send greetings and good wishes for good weather and a spiritually exciting week.

Photos from the Bicentennial Celebration for Yonge Street Meeting House, Group Singing, etc…

Bicentennial Celebration for Yonge Street Meetinghouse

Bicentennial Cake (Regular and Gluten Free)

Singing the Yonge Street Bicentennial song…

Cutting the cake

Devouring the cake…

Dana in dialogue…

Group singing

Group singing

Group singing

Here are a couple of pix from the annual Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, given Wednesday evening by Dana Mullen, entitled “Belonging” There is a link to download a rough mp3 file of the lecture below the pictures. Note that it is 56 MB so do not attempt to download if you don’t have high speed Internet. Please do NOT circulate this version but keep it for your personal use. A final version of the file, and hopefully a video, will be posted to the quaker.ca site in due course. We plan also to make it available on CD.

Sunderland P. Gardner Lecture 2012 at CYM, Camrose AB

Dana Mullen

MP3 downloadable audio file of the SPG Lecture 2012  Right-Click on the link and “Save as…” to download the mp3.

Skyping, HMAC evening, night sing…

Vince Zelazny and Martha McClure skyping family

HMAC night

HMAC Night – Sharing stories from Canadian Quaker history

HMAC Night – Sharing stories from Canadian Quaker history

HMAC Night – Sharing stories from Canadian Quaker history

Looking for Quakers to match with various histories…

The HMAC saga continues

Practicing the Yonge Street bicentennial song

Late night singing

Late night singing

Late night singing

By popular request, here is one of the songs we were singing on Tuesday night:

What Shall We Do With A Business Meeting?
(To the tune of “What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor”)

Opening verse (different ending than all the others):

What Shall We Do With A Business Meeting? (3x)
Early in the morning.

Chorus (sing after each verse):

Hot air, up she rises (3x)
In the business meeting.

Verses:

Center down and find consensus (3x)
In the business meeting.

Help the clerk, don’t speak too often (3x)
In the business meeting.

Make another long amendment (3x)
In the business meeting.

Refer it to a subcommittee (3x)
In the business meeting.

Take a break for tea and biscuits (3x)
In the business meeting.

Move the comma one word over (3x)
In the business meeting.

Take an hour to write a minute (3x)
In the business meeting.

Lay it over ’till tomorrow (3x)
In the business meeting.

Hush now, Friends – it’s closing Silence (3x)
In the business meeting.

Some pix of the younger ones at CYM  (Click on picture to see full image).